List of Lumen Technologies operating companies
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The Lumen Technologies operating companies are local exchange carriers owned by Lumen Technologies, the third largest landline telephone company in the United States.[http://www.fcc.gov/wcb/armis/documents/2010PDFs/cosa10.pdf List of telephone local operating companies at fcc.gov]
Lumen Technologies operating companies consist of operations inherited from various predecessor companies, which is reflected in the differing names of the companies and partially overlapping service territories; all operating companies do business using the CenturyLink brand. Predecessors include:
- CenturyTel - the former corporate name of CenturyLink.
- Embarq, the former landline operations of Sprint Nextel, which were spun off in 2006; these include operations dating from Sprint's time as United Telecommunications and operations owned by Centel, which it acquired in 1993.
- Qwest Communications International - which, through its acquisition of US West, inherited operations of the former Bell System in numerous western states.
List
=CenturyTel companies=
CenturyLink grew as Century Telephone and later CenturyTel through acquiring many small and mid-size telephone companies. These include:
- CenturyTel of Chester, Inc. (Iowa, Minnesota)
- CenturyTel of Colorado, Inc. – formerly Universal Telephone
- CenturyTel of Eagle, Inc. (Colorado) – formerly owned by Pacific Telecom
- CenturyTel of the Northwest, Inc. (Montana, Oregon, Washington) – formerly Pacific Telecom
- CenturyTel of the Gem State, Inc. (Idaho, Nevada) – formerly owned by Pacific Telecom
- CenturyTel of the Southwest, Inc. – five rate centers in New Mexico[https://www.centurylink.com/content/dam/home/about-us/tariff/documents/nm_ct-sw_acc_t_no_3.pdf CenturyTel of the Southwest tariff filing]
- Telephone USA of Wisconsin
=Former Embarq companies=
The following companies were acquired from Embarq, which was formed in 2006 by the spin-off of the local telephone operations of Sprint Corporation (previously named United Telephone). It also includes companies formerly owned by Centel which was purchased by Sprint in 1993.
- CenturyLink of Florida, Inc.
- CenturyLink of Minnesota, Inc.
- CenturyLink of Nevada, Inc.
- United Telephone Company of the West – (Nebraska, Wyoming)
- United Telephone of the Northwest – (Oregon, Washington)
=Former Qwest companies=
Qwest acquired US West, one of the Baby Bells, in 2000. Qwest was in turn acquired by CenturyLink in 2011.
- Qwest Corporation (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming) - Combines the former operations of Mountain Bell, Northwestern Bell, and Pacific Northwestern Bell, and is still regulated as a Bell Operating Company
- El Paso County Telephone Company (El Paso County, Colorado) – Acquired by US West in 1985.