Frontier Communications of Connecticut , also known as The Southern New England Telephone Company (usually referred to as SNET by its subscribers), is a locally owned exchange operator by Frontier Communications.
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History
It began operations on January 27, 1878 as the New Haven District Telephone Company. It was the founder of the first telephone exchange, as well as the first telephone book in the world. From the beginning, SNET has held a monopoly over most phone services in the state of Connecticut; the only remaining exceptions are the Greenwich and Byram exchanges where Verizon New York provides telephone service.
SNET and Cincinnati Bell are the only two companies in the old Bell System that are only owned by AT & amp; The old T owns minority shares; in 1983, AT & amp; T is only 19.6 percent. Therefore, it is not considered a Bell Operating Company; on the contrary, they are considered independent.
Sales to SBC
The Southern New England Telephone Company was purchased for $ 4.4 billion in 1998 by SBC Communications, who subsequently purchased AT & The old T, which takes its name as AT & amp; T "new". Under AT & amp; T The Southern New England Telephone Company is known as AT & amp; T Connecticut .
In 2006, AT & T incorporated South New England Telecommunications operations into AT & amp; T Teleholdings. Southern New England Telephone later became a subsidiary of a company formerly known as Ameritech in the company structure of AT & amp;
On June 1, 2007, the Woodbury Phone operations merged into Southern New England Telephone. Woodbury Telephone is now dead, operating as part of SNET/AT & amp; T Connecticut, and then Frontier.
Sale to Frontier
On October 24, 2014, Frontier Communications completed the purchase of AT & amp; T in CT for $ 2 billion. This is the second unit of the Bell System to be acquired by Frontier, the first being Frontier West Virginia (originally C & amp; P Telephone of West Virginia) purchased from Verizon in 2010.
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Today
The Southern New England Telephone Company is owned by and a subsidiary of Frontier Communications of Connecticut, which acquires SNET and AT & amp; T long, and ground operators for CT.
See also
- List of US phone companies
- ConnNet
External links
- History - University of Connecticut Library
- "AT & amp; T Press Release Headline & amp; News from AT & amp; T". att.com . Retrieved 2017-08-09 .
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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