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CenturyTel/CenturyLink/Lumen: Website: ... CenturyTel acquired the company in 2000, adding 62,650 lines at a cost of $170 million. [3] Proposed sale
CenturyLink grew as Century Telephone and later CenturyTel through acquiring many small and mid-size telephone companies. These include: CenturyTel of Adamsville, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink Adamsville (Mississippi, Tennessee) CenturyTel of Alabama, LLC - formerly part of Contel of the South and Verizon South; CenturyTel of Arkansas, Inc.
Lumen Technologies, Inc. (formerly CenturyLink) is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, which offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice and managed services through its fiber optic and copper networks, as well as its data centers and cloud computing services.
CenturyLink of Florida, Inc. is a telephone operating company providing local telephone services in Florida owned by Lumen Technologies. The company was established in 1925, later changing its name to United Telephone Company of Florida upon expansion of the United Telephone System.
CenturyLink of Minnesota, Inc. is a telephone operating company providing local telephone services in Minnesota. Sprint Corporation, in 2005, acquired Nextel and changed its name to Sprint Nextel Corporation .
Embarq Corporation (stylized as EMBARQ) was the largest independent local exchange carrier in the United States (below the Baby Bells), [2] serving customers in 18 states and providing local, long-distance, high-speed data and wireless services to residential and business customers.
The company was successful in their efforts, but at the time the cost to build fiber directly to consumer's homes proved too expensive to be profitable. In the mid-1990s the company evolved into a "carriers carrier" selling " dark fiber " capacity to other telecom and Internet providers to supplement their networks.
Telecom carriers CenturyLink (CTL) and Qwest Communications (Q) have announced plans to get hitched, the latest merger in an ongoing consolidation trend among the smaller, regional phone companies.