CenturyLink of Minnesota, Inc. is a telephone operating company providing local telephone services in
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...
.
Sprint Corporation, in 2005, acquired
Nextel
Nextel Communications, Inc. was an American wireless service operator that merged with and ceased to exist as a subsidiary of Sprint Corporation, which would later be bought by T-Mobile, T-Mobile US and folded into that company. Nextel in Brazil, ...
and changed its name to
Sprint Nextel Corporation. 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 ...
. The company was renamed Embarq Minnesota, Inc.
Embarq was acquired by
CenturyTel in 2009, which in 2010 changed its name to CenturyLink. Embarq Minnesota, at that point, began carrying on business under the CenturyLink name. The company's legal name was changed in 2022 to reflect its ownership by CenturyLink after most of Embarq was spun off to
Brightspeed.
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Telecommunications companies of the United States
Telecommunications companies established in 1968
Companies disestablished in 2009
1968 establishments in Minnesota
2009 disestablishments in Minnesota