CenturyLink of Florida, Inc. is a telephone operating company providing local telephone services in

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...

owned by

Lumen Technologies Lumen Technologies, Inc. (formerly CenturyLink) is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services. The company is a ...

. The company was established in 1925, later changing its name to United Telephone Company of Florida upon expansion of the United Telephone System. It was owned by

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. United Utilities later became United Telecom, and acquired Sprint Long Distance from

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. The company changed its name to

Sprint Corporation Sprint Corporation was an American telecommunications company. Before it Merger of Sprint Corporation and T-Mobile US, merged with T-Mobile US on April 1, 2020, it was the fourth-largest mobile network operator in the United States, serving 54.3 ...

. The company changed its name to Sprint-Florida, Inc. in 1996. Later, the Central Telephone Company of Florida was merged into Sprint-Florida, which was internally transferred to the control of Central Telephone Company, a subsidiary of

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, which was owned by Sprint. Sprint Corporation, in 2005, acquired

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and changed its name to

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. The company intended to spin off its wireline assets into a separate company, which in 2006 occurred as

Embarq Corporation Embarq Corporation (stylized as EMBARQ) was the largest independent local exchange carrier in the United States (below the Baby Bells), serving customers in 18 states and providing local, long-distance, high-speed data and wireless services to ...

. Sprint-Florida then became Embarq Florida, Inc. Embarq was acquired by CenturyTel in 2009, which in 2010 changed its name to

CenturyLink Lumen Technologies, Inc. (formerly CenturyLink) is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services. The company is ...

. Embarq Florida, at that point, ceased its independent identity and began carrying on business under the CenturyLink name. Embarq Florida’s legal name was changed in 2022 to CenturyLink of Florida, Inc., as it was retained by Lumen following Embarq’s sale to Brightspeed. Since

Central Telephone Central Telephone Company is a telephone operating company owned by Lumen Technologies that provides local telephone service in Florida, Nevada, and North Carolina. Its largest market is Las Vegas History The company was established in 1971 as ...

Company was included in the sale to Brightspeed, the ownership of CenturyLink of Florida was transferred to another subsidiary within Lumen.http://www.psc.state.fl.us/library/filings/2021/11994-2021/11994-2021.pdf

External links

CenturyLink Florida website (for former Embarq customers)

References

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