Brightspeed of Missouri, LLC is a telephone operating company owned by
Brightspeed that provides local telephone service in
Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...
. The cities served by the company include
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Places
;Canada
* Branson, Toronto
;United States
* Branson, Missouri, a popular tourist destination in the Ozark Mountains
* Branson, Colorado
* Branson City, California
* The Branson School, in Ross, California
* Warrenpoi ...
and
Columbia.
History
Brightspeed of Missouri was established as CenturyTel of Missouri, LLC on 10/17/2001
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/sup> upon CenturyTel's purchase of lines from Verizon Communications
Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in ...
. The lines in Missouri were transferred from GTE Midwest {{No footnotes, date=November 2019
GTE Midwest, Inc. was a GTE operating company formed in 1993 upon the split off of some GTE local telephone operations from GTE North. GTE Midwest served Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota, and included the ...
, which was originally an operating company of 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 ...
. Included in the transfer were lines that GTE acquired in its purchase of Contel
ConTel Corporation (Continental Telephone) was the third largest independent phone company in the United States prior to the 1996 telecom deregulation. It was acquired by GTE in 1991.
History
In 1980, Contel purchased Network Analysis Corp, th ...
.
Following the sale, GTE Midwest {{No footnotes, date=November 2019
GTE Midwest, Inc. was a GTE operating company formed in 1993 upon the split off of some GTE local telephone operations from GTE North. GTE Midwest served Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota, and included the ...
was dissolved.
Sale
On August 3, 2021, Lumen announced its sale of its local telephone assets in 20 states to Apollo Global Management, including Missouri.
The company was renamed Brightspeed of Missouri, LLC following the sale.
See also
*GTE Midwest {{No footnotes, date=November 2019
GTE Midwest, Inc. was a GTE operating company formed in 1993 upon the split off of some GTE local telephone operations from GTE North. GTE Midwest served Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota, and included the ...
*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 ...
* Brightspeed
References
Lumen Technologies
Verizon Communications
Communications in Missouri
2002 establishments in Missouri
American companies established in 2002
Telecommunications companies established in 2002
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