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C Spire, formerly known as Cellular South, Inc., [1] is an American privately owned telecommunications and technology company headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi. The company consists of three business divisions – Wireless, Home Fiber, and Business.
The company was formed by Verizon in 2009 to facilitate the planned sale of some local subsidiaries to Frontier, which was completed on July 1, 2010. The company was set up to allow for a Reverse Morris Trust merger, allowing Verizon to spin off the company to Frontier tax-free. Its primary purpose was to transfer Frontier ILEC Holdings as well ...
Verizon South was originally established in 1947 as The Bluefield Telephone Corporation, providing telephone service to communities in Virginia including its namesake Bluefield. The company's first president was R.A. Phillips and was formally incorporated by Judson Large, Dean A. Esling, Richard L. Merrick, William W. Darrow, and Roland K ...
Verizon began its existence -- as a brand, if not a company -- on April 3, 2000, when Bell Atlantic announced the name (and formalized the agreement) of its wireless partnership with. On this day ...
Verizon still operates phone service in non-Bell System areas in Pennsylvania under Verizon North, and in non-Bell System areas in Virginia and Knotts Island, North Carolina under Verizon South. In September 2024, Verizon announced a deal to acquire Frontier, which will return much of the former GTE network to Verizon ownership. [21]
In 2017, Verizon acquired Yahoo's core internet operations for a staggering $4.8 billion. Post-acquisition, Yahoo struggled under Verizon’s Oath division (later known as Verizon Media).
Alltel was a landline, wireless and general telecommunications services provider, primarily based in the United States.Before its wireless division was acquired by Verizon Wireless and AT&T, Alltel provided cellular service to 34 states and had approximately 13 million subscribers.
T-Mobile says customers could get upgraded network, better rural coverage under $4.4 billion acquisition of U.S. Cellular's phone operations by T-Mobile