YP Connecticut Information Services LLC, originally SNET Information Services, Inc., was the directory publishing arm of

Southern New England Telecommunications Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation (SNET) started operations in 1986 as the holding company for The Southern New England Telephone Company. Prior to 1986, The Southern New England Telephone Company had been a minority holding of ...

. It is currently owned by

YP Holdings YP Holdings, now a wholly owned subsidiary of DexYP, is the American parent company for YP LLC. Its products include printed telephone directory, telephone directories, yp.com and YP app. YP offers local search, display ads and direct marketin ...

and publishes telephone directories for

Southern New England Telephone 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. History It started operations o ...

customers under the YP Real Yellow Pages name.

History

When its parent,

, was acquired by SBC Communications in 1998, its operations remained largely independent of other SBC directory companies. In 2003, however, following brand standardization, the SNET Yellow Pages were rebranded the SBC Yellow Pages. In 2005, following SBC's acquisition of

AT&T AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company by revenue and the third largest provider of mobile te ...

, the SNET directories were rebranded as the AT&T Yellow Pages. In 2006, following

BellSouth BellSouth, LLC (stylized as ''BELLSOUTH'' and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation) was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after ...

's purchase by

, the directory company itself was rebranded as AT&T Advertising & Publishing, the collective name of all of AT&T's directory operations. In 2012, the company's operations were reincorporated in

Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...

as YP Connecticut Information Services LLC. The company was sold to

. In 2014, AT&T sold off Southern New England Telephone to

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 ...

. However, YP continues to publish its Connecticut directories with the AT&T name and logo as official directories for SNET customers are published by

Local Insight Yellow Pages 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 ...

, publisher of FrontierPages.

References

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