Windstream Kentucky West LLC is a Windstream operating company providing local telephone services to small portions of

Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...

History

Windstream Kentucky West was established in 1954. It was acquired by

Alltel Alltel Wireless was a wireless service provider, primarily based in the United States. Before acquisitions by Verizon Wireless and AT&T, it served 34 states and had approximately 13 million subscribers. As a regulatory condition of the acquisition ...

and changed its name to ALLTEL Kentucky, Inc.. In 2002,

acquired Verizon's operations in Kentucky formerly part of Verizon South and founded

Kentucky ALLTEL Windstream Kentucky East LLC is a Windstream operating company providing local telephone services to portions of Kentucky. History Windstream Kentucky East was established in 2001 as Kentucky ALLTEL, Inc. (as opposed to ALLTEL Kentucky, Inc., ...

for assets originally owned by

GTE GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982), was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System. The company operated from 1926, with roots tracing furth ...

. In 2006, the company was renamed Windstream Kentucky West, Inc., following the sale of

's wireline assets to Valor Telecom. Valor renamed itself Windstream. In 2007, the company became a

limited liability company A limited liability company (LLC for short) is the US-specific form of a private limited company. It is a business structure that can combine the pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability of a ...

LLC service providers
As of 2012, the company has 23 employees and operates 27,000 lines in 5 exchanges.
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References

{{reflist Communications in Kentucky Windstream Communications Telecommunications companies of the United States 2001 establishments in Kentucky American companies established in 2001 Telecommunications companies established in 1954