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Brightspeed of Texas was founded in 1956 as Central Telephone of Texas, [1] a subsidiary of Centel. In 1992, Centel was acquired by Sprint, and Central of Texas began doing business under the Sprint name, but retained its legal name. In 2006, the company was spun off into Embarq when Sprint Nextel spun off its local telephone operations. [2]
The train service was originally conceived to be the main New York Central route to the American Southwest and California via the St. Louis gateway. The New York Central had strong relationships with railroads in the US west. The Southwestern Limited was all-Pullman equipped on April 26, 1925. By 1933, the train included coaches. [2]
The company was established in 1971 as a subsidiary of Centel. In 1992, Centel was acquired by Sprint, but the Central Telephone Company retained its corporate name. In 2006, Sprint spun off its local telephone business as Embarq, which was then acquired by CenturyTel (now Lumen Technologies) in 2009.
In 1922, McGraw entered the telecommunications business with the purchase of Central Telephone and Electric Company of St. Louis, Missouri. McGraw's businesses grew rapidly, and in 1926 more than 20 separate electric and telephone companies were consolidated as Central West Public Service Company .
State Telephone Company of Texas Southwestern Associated Telephone Company General Telephone Company of the Southwest GTE Southwest Incorporated: Company type: Subsidiary: Industry: Telecommunications: Founded: 1926; 99 years ago () Headquarters: Irving, Texas, USA [1] Products: Local Telephone Service: Parent: GTE (1926–2000) Verizon (2000 ...
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He recognized the marketing and compensation strategy was suited for the marketing and distribution of services, rather than physical products. He designed and deployed his network-marketing strategy at a telecommunication startup company; this concept grew to become Excel—a billion-dollar publicly traded long-distance company.
The New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, a Bell licensee serving Long Island and Staten Island, [5] was broken up and its New York properties merged with the New York company as the City and Suburban Telephone Company in 1897. [6] American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) eventually acquired a controlling interest and restored the New York ...