CenturyTel of South Arkansas

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CenturyTel of South Arkansas, Inc.
Private (Subsidiary of CenturyLink)
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 1961
Products Local Telephone Service
Parent CenturyTel/CenturyLink
Website http://www.centurylink.com/

CenturyTel of South Arkansas, Inc. is a telephone operating company of CenturyLink providing local telephone services to Dodge City and Junction City in Arkansas and South Dodge City and South Junction City in Louisiana [1]

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.

Junction City, Arkansas City in Arkansas, United States

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Arkansas is a state in the southern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2018. Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin, the Quapaw Indians. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta.

The company was founded in 1961 [2] as the Union Telephone Company, Inc. Clarke Williams acquired the company, along with what is now CenturyTel of Arkansas, in 1962, later becoming part of his company Central Telephone and Electronics, then Century Telephone Enterprises. [3] The Union Telephone Company, in 1995, became Century Telephone of South Arkansas, Inc. The company adopted its current name in 1998.

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References

  1. ↑ Local Calling Guide: CenturyTel of South Arkansas, Inc. Archived March 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine .
  2. ↑ Arkansas Secretary of State
  3. ↑ Funding Universe: Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc.
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