List of United States telephone companies

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This is a list of United States telephone companies.

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Regional Bell Operating Companies

The Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) are the result of the break-up of the Bell System in 1984. After numerous mergers, asset sales, and renamings since the break-up, these are the current successor RBOCs:

Remaining RBOC map as of 2005. Note that Qwest is now Lumen Technologies, BellSouth is now AT&T, and AT&T in Connecticut (formerly SNET) and Verizon in West Virginia are now Frontier. Remaining RBOC map.png
Remaining RBOC map as of 2005. Note that Qwest is now Lumen Technologies, BellSouth is now AT&T, and AT&T in Connecticut (formerly SNET) and Verizon in West Virginia are now Frontier.

Other major incumbent local exchange carriers

In the following states and regions, the primary local carrier (ILEC) is not an RBOC:

Many other individual communities or smaller regions are also served by non-RBOC companies.

See also

Notes

  1. "Lumen completes $7.5bn sale of operations in 20 states to Brightspeed". October 4, 2022.
  2. "Service Area Locations - Consolidated Communications". www.consolidated.com.
  3. http://s1.q4cdn.com/371368693/files/doc_financials/annual/2016/TDS2016AnnualReport.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  4. "Cincinnati Bell acquires two peers for $851M".

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