SNET America, Inc. is a long-distance telephone company owned by

Frontier Communications Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. is an American telecommunications company. Known as Citizens Utilities Company until 2000, Citizens Communications Company until 2008, and Frontier Communications Corporation until 2020, as a communications pr ...

that serves

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with customers in other states. SNET America was formed by Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. in 1993 to compete with other long-distance carriers within Connecticut. SNET America does business as Frontier Communications. It is distinct from Frontier Communications Online and Long Distance and Citizens Communications of America, the other core long-distance units of Frontier. SNET America came under the ownership of SBC Communications in 1998. In 2003, SNET America began doing business as SBC Long Distance East. In 2005, when SBC changed its name to

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, SNET America began doing business as AT&T Long Distance East. On December 17, 2013,

announced plans to sell SNET America and its companion

incumbent local exchange carrier An incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) is a local telephone company which held the regional monopoly on landline service before the market was opened to competitive local exchange carriers, or the corporate successor of such a firm, in the Un ...

Southern New England Telephone The Southern New England Telephone Company (SNET), doing business as Frontier Communications of Connecticut, is a local exchange carrier owned by Frontier Communications. History It started operations on January 28, 1878, as the District Teleph ...

for $2 billion. The sale to Frontier closed on October 25, 2014. SNET America then began doing business as Frontier Long Distance.

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