Windstream Kentucky East LLC is a

Windstream Windstream Holdings, Inc., also doing business as Windstream Communications or Windstream, is a provider of voice and data network communications (broadband, VoIP, MPLS), and managed services ( virtual servers, managed firewall, data storage, clou ...

operating company providing local telephone services to portions of

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History

Windstream Kentucky East was established in 2001 as Kentucky ALLTEL, Inc. (as opposed to ALLTEL Kentucky, Inc., an existing company Alltel owned). The company was founded to take over

Verizon South Verizon South, Inc. is a Verizon operating company providing local telephone services to portions of Virginia and North Carolina in the United States. History Verizon South was originally established in 1947 as The Bluefield Telephone Corporation ...

operations that were formerly operated by

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and included were those originally operated by

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 ...

. In 2002, the sale of Verizon's assets in Kentucky took place, with

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 ...

becoming owner. In 2006, the company was renamed Windstream Kentucky East, Inc., following the sale of

's wireline assets to

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. Valor renamed itself

. In 2007, the company became a

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. As of 2012, the company has 676 employees and operates 508,000 lines in 94 exchanges.Kentucky Telephone Association, Regular Members
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References

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