Carolina Telephone & Telegraph

Carolina Telephone & Telegraph (sometimes locally known as CT&T or Carolina Telephone) was an independent telephone company headquartered in Tarboro, North Carolina. The company was purchased by Sprint and merged with the United Telephone System of North Carolina to become Sprint Carolina Telephone. For a while, the Carolina Telephone and United Telephone System names were used together and both companies were synonymous, but that scheme was later discontinued. Sprint later dropped Carolina Telephone from the name and used just the Sprint brand name and logo. In 2006 Sprint's landline service officially became Embarq.

ervice area

Carolina Telephone's service area generally covered most of eastern North Carolina east of Interstate 95 with the exception of areas around Wilmington and Goldsboro and areas south of U.S. Highway 74. The company, also, served customers in the Sandhills and eastern Piedmont of North Carolina, primarily south and west of Raleigh. The company, additionally, had a pocket of outlying customers in the Kernersville area of eastern Forsyth County.

External links

* [http://www.fcc.gov/wcb/armis/carrier_filing_history/COSA_History/utnc.htm Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company (UTNC) corporate history page] at FCC.gov
* [http://www.embarq.com Embarq website]