Brightspeed of Kansas, Inc., formerly United Telephone Company of Kansas, is one of several Brightspeed subsidiaries providing local telephone service in

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. Kansas towns that Brightspeed of Kansas serves include Junction City,

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, Hillsboro, Sterling and Garnett.

History

The company was founded in 1909 as The American Telephone Company. It was owned by

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until 2006 when it was spun off into

Embarq Embarq Corporation (stylized as EMBARQ) was the largest independent local exchange carrier in the United States (below the Regional Bell Operating Company, Baby Bells), serving customers in 18 states and providing local, long-distance, high-spee ...

. CenturyTel acquired Embarq in 2009, at which point United Telephone of Kansas began doing business as

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 ...

Sale

On August 3, 2021, Lumen announced its sale of its local telephone assets in 20 states to

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, including Kansas. The sale to Apollo closed on October 3, 2022.

References

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