CenturyTel of San Marcos

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CenturyTel of San Marcos, Inc.
Private (Subsidiary of CenturyLink)
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 1992
Products Local Telephone Service
Parent CenturyLink
Website http://www.centurylink.com/

CenturyTel of San Marcos, Inc. is a telephone operating company providing local telephone services in Texas owned by CenturyLink.

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CenturyLink, Inc. is an American telecommunications company, headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that provides communications and data services to residential, business, governmental, and wholesale customers in 37 states. A member of the S&P 500 index and the Fortune 500, the company operates as a local exchange carrier and Internet access provider in U.S. markets and is the third-largest telecommunications company in the United States in terms of lines served, behind AT&T and Verizon and provides long distance service. CenturyLink also serves global enterprise customers across North America, Latin America, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

The company was founded as San Marcos Telephone Company in 1952. [1] It was acquired by Century Telephone, now CenturyLink, in 1993 [2] and absorbed into a company Century Telephone created which was named Century Telephone of San Marcos, Inc. The company's name was later changed to CenturyTel of San Marcos, Inc.

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References

  1. ↑ Texas Secretary of State
  2. ↑ San Marcos Manufacturing Association [ permanent dead link ]
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