Industry Telecommunications | Founded 1956 | |
Type Private (Subsidiary of CenturyLink) Products Local Telephone Service Website http://www.centurylink.com/ Home & Business Internet, Phone, and TV | CenturyLink Parent organizations CenturyLink, Embarq, Centel | ||
Central Telephone Company of Texas is a telephone operating company owned by CenturyLink that provides local telephone service in Texas. The company serves communities in Texas such as Killeen, Copperas Cove, and Cranfills Gap.
The company was established in 1956 as a subsidiary of Centel. In 1992, Centel was acquired by Sprint, and Central of Texas began carrying business on under the Sprint name retained its corporate name.
In 2006, the company was spun off into Embarq when Sprint Nextel spun off its local telephone operations.
The company does business as CenturyLink, a name it adopted in 2009 following acquisition of Embarq by CenturyTel.