Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc., commonly known as Iowa Telecom, provided local telephone service to 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 ...

customers in the U.S. states of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Minnesota. Iowa Telecom was founded in 1999 as a partnership between Iowa Network Services and

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. It acquired the assets of

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 f ...

, which served

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following Bell Atlantic's purchase of

. It had 257,700 access lines and served 435 communities in Iowa. In 2002 Iowa Telecom bought PC Partner Communications and Zumatel Communications. On February 7, 2008, Iowa Telecom bought Lakedale Communications, Sherbtel Comminuations, Conntections-ETC, and SOMA, all located in Minnesota. At that time it also acquired Willinet in New York. On November 24, 2009 Iowa Telecom was acquired by Windstream. Its telephone directories were published by Pinnacle Publishing.

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