Windstream North Carolina LLC is a telephone company operating in the state of

North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and ...

History

Windstream North Carolina was established in 1948 as the Thermal Belt Telephone Company. It was founded to establish telephone service in

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.Articles of Incorporation, October 8, 1948, Thermal Belt Telephone Company, North Carolina Secretary of State
/ref> In 1974, Thermal Belt Telephone absorbed the operations of Eastern Rowan Telephone, Mid-Carolina Telephone, and Mooresville Telephone. Following the merger, Thermal Belt Telephone became Mid-Carolina Telephone Company. It also absorbed The Old Town Telephone System and North Carolina Telephone in 1977. In 1984, the company became ALLTEL-Carolina, Inc. The name was later changed to remove the hyphen. In 2006, the company was sold to

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, which changed its name to

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, clo ...

. It is a separate company from Windstream Concord Telephone, which was acquired by

in 2007.

References

{{reflist * Telecommunications companies of the United States Communications in North Carolina Companies based in North Carolina American companies established in 1948 Telecommunications companies established in 1948 1948 establishments in North Carolina