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Brightspeed of Eastern Kansas, Inc. is one of several Brightspeed companies providing local telephone service in
Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...
. Kansas towns that Brightspeed of Eastern Kansas serves include Sterling, Lebo, Gardner, and Nortonville. The current company was founded in 1927 and became United Telephone Company of Iowa. In 1988, the company acquired exchanges in Kansas, exited Iowa, and changed its name to United Telephone Company of Eastern Kansas.


Sale

On August 3, 2021, Lumen announced its sale of its local telephone assets in 20 states to
Apollo Global Management Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American global private-equity firm. It provides investment management and invests in credit, private equity, and real assets. As of March 31, 2022, the company had $512 billion of assets under management, ...
, including Kansas. The sale to Apollo closed on October 3, 2022.


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See also

* Brightspeed * CenturyLink * Sprint Nextel {{Brightspeed Lumen Technologies Sprint Corporation Telecommunications companies of the United States Telecommunications companies established in 1988 Communications in Kansas American companies established in 1927