Oxford West Telephone Company is a local telephone company in

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and is owned by Maine-based Oxford Networks. The company was founded in 1994 upon Oxford's purchase of Contel of Maine's Oxford County exchanges from

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. The company absorbed the operations of Bryant Pond Telephone Co., which had been established in 1974, and adopted a

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of the former company to reflect the merger. The company provides local telephone services to cities such as Bryant Pond and

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