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The Southern New England Telephone Company (commonly referred to as SNETCo by its customers), doing business as Frontier Communications of Connecticut, is a local exchange carrier owned by
Frontier Communications Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. (known as Citizens Utilities Company until May 2000 and Citizens Communications Company until July 31, 2008) is an American telecommunications company. The company previously served primarily rural areas and s ...
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History

It started operations on January 28, 1878 as the District Telephone Company of New Haven. It was the founder of the first telephone exchange, as well as the world's first telephone book. Since its inception, SNET has held a monopoly on most of the telephone services in the state of Connecticut; the only remaining exceptions are the
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and Byram exchanges where
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provides telephone service. SNET and
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were the only two companies in the old Bell System in which the old AT&T only held a minority stake; by 1983, AT&T's stake was only 19.6 percent. Therefore, both were considered independents rather than
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Sale to SBC

SNET was purchased for $4.4 billion in 1998 by SBC Communications, which subsequently purchased the old AT&T, taking its name as the "new" AT&T. Under AT&T, SNET was known as AT&T Connecticut. In 2006, AT&T merged the operations of SNET into
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, formerly Ameritech, making it a subsidiary of the latter. On June 1, 2007, the operations of
Woodbury Telephone The Woodbury Telephone Company was a telephone company that served the Connecticut towns of Woodbury, Southbury, Bethlehem, and parts of Roxbury and Oxford. In 1997, Woodbury Telephone was acquired by Southern New England Telecommunications. ...
were merged into SNET.


Sale to Frontier

On October 24, 2014,
Frontier Communications Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. (known as Citizens Utilities Company until May 2000 and Citizens Communications Company until July 31, 2008) is an American telecommunications company. The company previously served primarily rural areas and s ...
completed its purchase of AT&T's Connecticut operations, including Southern New England Telephone and
SNET America SNET America, Inc. is a long-distance telephone company owned by Frontier Communications that serves Connecticut with customers in other states. It competes to provide long-distance service for SNET customers. SNET America was formed by Southern ...
, for $2 billion. The company began doing business as Frontier Communications of Connecticut. It is the second former unit of the Bell System to be acquired by Frontier, the first being
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(originally C&P Telephone of West Virginia) which was purchased from
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in 2010.


See also

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List of United States telephone companies This is a list of United States telephone companies. Regional Bell Operating Companies The Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) are the result of the break-up of the Bell System in 1984. After numerous mergers, asset sales, and renamings s ...
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ConnNet ConnNet was a packet switched data network operated by the Southern New England Telephone Company serving the U.S. state of Connecticut. ConnNet was the nation's first local public packet switching network when it was launched on March 11, 1985. ...


External links


History – University of Connecticut Libraries
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References

{{AT&T Spinoffs Frontier Communications Bell System Telecommunications companies established in 1878 Telecommunications companies of the United States Communications in Connecticut Companies based in New Haven, Connecticut 1878 establishments in Connecticut