- List of Frontier Communications operating companies
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This article is about local telephone operating companies. For the parent company, see Frontier Communications.
Frontier Communications owns local telephone operating companies consisting of companies it has owned under its previous name Citizens Communications Company, companies it acquired from Global Crossing, and companies it acquired from Verizon Communications which are grouped under its subsidiary Frontier Communications ILEC Holdings. The companies operate in largely rural areas (with a few exceptions).
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Citizens companies
The Citizens companies refer to all of the subsidiaries of Frontier Communications that were formed before 2001 when it was named Citizens Communications Company. They provide local telephone service to their respective regions, denoted in the corporate name or next to it. The companies include [1]:
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of California Inc.
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of Idaho (acquired from GTE in 1993)
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of Illinois
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of Montana (acquired from GTE in 1994)
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of Nevada
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of New York
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of Nebraska (formerly GTE, acquired in 1999)
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of Oregon
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of Minnesota
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of Tennessee LLC
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of Utah
- Citizens Telecommunications of the Volunteer State LLC (Tennessee)
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of West Virginia (includes former GTE and Alltel lines)
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of the White Mountains (Arizona)
- Citizens Utilities Rural Company, Inc. (Arizona)
- Navajo Communications Company, Inc. (Arizona)
- Ogden Telephone Company (Spencerport, New York; acquired in 1997 [2])
- Rhinelander Telephone Company (Wisconsin)
Rochester Telephone companies
Rochester Telephone Corporation, later Frontier Corporation, and now Global Crossing North America, Inc., sold its local telephone operations to Citizens in 2001. The companies Frontier owned in New York include[3][4]:
- Frontier Communications of Ausable Valley, Inc. (formerly Ausable Valley Telephone Company)
- Frontier Communications of New York, Inc. (formerly Highland Telephone Company)
- Frontier Communications of Seneca-Gorham, Inc. (formerly Seneca-Gorham Telephone Corporation)
- Frontier Communications of Sylvan Lake, Inc. (formerly Sylvan Lake Telephone Company)
- Frontier Telephone of Rochester, Inc. (founded in 1994 - contains the original Rochester, NY telephone exchanges of Frontier Corporation)
Frontier Subsidiary Telco, LLC was established in 1990 to own telephone operations located outside of New York. The companies owned by Frontier Subsidiary Telco include:
- Frontier Communications - Midland, Inc. (Illinois)
- Frontier Communications - Prairie, Inc. (Illinois)
- Frontier Communications - Schuyler, Inc. (Illinois)
- Frontier Communications - St. Croix LLC (Wisconsin)
- Frontier Communications of Alabama LLC
- Frontier Communications of Breezewood, LLC (Pennsylvania)
- Frontier Communications of Canton, LLC (Pennsylvania)
- Frontier Communications of DePue, Inc. (Illinois)
- Frontier Communications of Fairmount, LLC (Georgia)
- Frontier Communications of Georgia LLC
- Frontier Communications of Illinois, Inc.
- Frontier Communications of Indiana LLC
- Frontier Communications of Iowa, LLC
- Frontier Communications of Lakeside, Inc. (Illinois)
- Frontier Communications of Lakewood, LLC (Pennsylvania)
- Frontier Communications of Lamar County LLC (Alabama)
- Frontier Communications of Michigan, Inc.
- Frontier Communications of Minnesota, Inc.
- Frontier Communications of Mississippi LLC
- Frontier Communications of Mondovi LLC (Wisconsin)
- Frontier Communications of Mt. Pulaski, Inc. (Illinois)
- Frontier Communications of Orion, Inc. (Illinois)
- Frontier Communications of Oswayo River LLC (Pennsylvania)
- Frontier Communications of Pennsylvania, LLC
- Frontier Communications of the South LLC
- Frontier Communications of Thorntown LLC (Indiana)
- Frontier Communications of Viroqua LLC (Wisconsin)
- Frontier Communications of Wisconsin LLC
Former Verizon companies
Frontier purchased New Communications ILEC Holdings from Verizon on July 1, 2010, acquiring several companies that Verizon inherited in its acquisition of GTE as well as one company it owned when created as Bell Atlantic.
- Frontier Communications Northwest, Inc.
- Frontier Communications of the Carolinas, Inc. (formerly part of Verizon South)
- Frontier Communications of the Southwest, Inc. (formerly part of Verizon California)
- Frontier Communications West Coast, Inc.
- Frontier Midstates, Inc.
- Frontier North, Inc.
- Frontier West Virginia, Inc.
Another new company was created from the Verizon split that wasn't owned by Verizon; rather, it was always owned by Frontier.
- Frontier Communications of Virginia, Inc. (formerly part of Verizon Virginia)
See also
- Frontier Communications
- Frontier Communications ILEC Holdings
- Rochester Telephone (New York)
References
Operating companies Citizens Telecommunications Company of Nebraska · Citizens Telecommunications Company of the White Mountains · Citizens Telecommunications Company of West Virginia · Citizens Utilities Rural · Frontier Communications Northwest · Frontier Communications of Breezewood · Frontier Communications of Mondovi · Frontier Communications of the Carolinas · Frontier Communications of the Southwest · Frontier Communications of Virginia · Frontier Communications West Coast · Frontier Midstates · Frontier North · Frontier Telephone of Rochester · Frontier West Virginia · Navajo Communications · Ogden TelephoneLong distance/Internet services Frontier Communications of America · Frontier Communications Online and Long DistanceCategories:
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