Vista-United Telecommunications was the telecommunications company created to service all Disney resorts in Florida and Disney-planned communities such as

Celebration, Florida Celebration is a master-planned community (MPC) and census-designated place (CDP) in Osceola County, Florida, United States. A suburb of Orlando, Celebration is located near Walt Disney World Resort and originally developed by The Walt Disney C ...

and the Disney Vacation Clubs in

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and

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. The company was created to manage the new telephone and data communications for

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. Vista-United was the first company to use underground cabling, the first to use fiber optic cable to provide service to customers, and the first company in

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to activate

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emergency dialing. Vista-United was, in fact, an independent telephone company for

, however the company was created through a partnership between Vista Communications, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of

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and United Telephone Company of Florida, which later became a part of Sprint. In 2001, telephone company Smart City Telecom purchased Vista-United, and created an agreement with Disney to ensure telecommunications service for the resort over a long period of time.US Cable Group
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{{Disney Defunct telecommunications companies of the United States Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Companies based in Orlando, Florida Defunct companies based in Florida Technology companies disestablished in 2001 Sprint Corporation American companies disestablished in 2001 2001 disestablishments in Florida