Vista-United Telecommunications

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company_name = Vista-United Telecommunications
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foundation = Orlando, Florida, USA
founder = The Walt Disney Company
location_city = Orlando, Florida
location_country = USA
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industry = Telecommunications
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Vista-United Telecommunications was the telecommunications company created to service all Disney resorts in Florida and Disney-planned communities such as Celebration, Florida and the Disney Vacation Clubs in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and Vero Beach, Florida.

Disney created Vista-United as an Limited Liability Company. The company was created to manage the new telephone and data communications for Walt Disney World. Vista-United was the first company to use underground cabling, the first to use fiber optic cable to provide service to customers, and the first company in Florida to activate 9-1-1 emergency dialing. [ [http://www.mouseplanet.com/mark/mg040630.htm Mouse Planet – History of the World, Part V – Transforming the Land] ]

Vista-United was in-fact an independent telephone company for Walt Disney World, however the company was created through a partnership between Vista Communications, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company and United Telephone Company of Florida, which later became a part of Sprint. [ [http://www.smartcity.com/about/presskits/pkit_company.asp Smart City Media Kit - Company Overview ] ]

In 2001 telephone company Smart City Telecom, LLC purchased Vista-United and created an agreement with Disney to ensure telecommunications service for the resort over a long period of time. [ [http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID10004010.asp LaughingPlace.com: Smart City Networks to Acquire Vista-United Telecommunications (The #1 Site for Disney) ] ] [ [http://www.uscablegroup.com/news_4_09_01.htm US Cable Group ] ]

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