Citizens Telecommunications Company of West Virginia is the local exchange carrier of telephone service in some regions in

West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the Bur ...

. The company was founded in 1897 as the Short Line Telephone Company. In 1975, the company changed its name to Mountain State Telephone Company. In 1995, the company became Citizens Mountain State Telephone Company in 1995 upon its acquisition from

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 ...

. The company operated separately from Citizens' existing operations in West Virginia that operated under the Citizens Telecommunications Company of West Virginia name. In 2000, Citizens Mountain State absorbed the former

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 ...

operations that Citizens acquired in 1994. At this point, Citizens Mountain State Telephone Company then changed its name to Citizens Telecommunications Company of West Virginia. In 2001, the company began doing business as Frontier Communications of West Virginia. The company operates separately from

Frontier West Virginia Frontier West Virginia, Inc. is one of the original Bell Operating Companies and provides Plain old telephone service, local telephone service in the U.S. state of West Virginia. History The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virgin ...

, regulated as a

Bell Operating Company The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over one hundre ...

, which was acquired by Frontier in 2010.

References

{{Frontier Frontier Communications Communications in West Virginia Telecommunications companies of the United States American companies established in 1897 Telecommunications companies established in 1897

See also

References