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Citizens Telecommunications Company of West Virginia

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Type
  
Subsidiary of Frontier

Website
  
www.frontier.com

Industry
  
Telecommunications

Founded
  
1897

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Trading name
  
Frontier Communications of West Virginia

Parent organizations
  
Frontier Communications, Alltel

Citizens Telecommunications Company of West Virginia is the local exchange carrier of telephone service in some regions in West Virginia.

The company was founded in 1897 as the Short Line Telephone Company. In 1975, the company changed its name to Mountain State Telephone Company. In 1995, the company became Citizens Mountain State Telephone Company in 1995 upon its acquisition from Alltel. The company operated separately from Citizens' existing operations in West Virginia that operated under the Citizens Telecommunications Company of West Virginia name.

In 2000, Citizens Mountain State absorbed the former GTE operations that Citizens acquired in 1994. At this point, Citizens Mountain State Telephone Company then changed its name to Citizens Telecommunications Company of West Virginia.

In 2001, the company began doing business as Frontier Communications of West Virginia.

The company operates separately from Frontier West Virginia, regulated as a Bell Operating Company, which was acquired by Frontier in 2010.

References

Citizens Telecommunications Company of West Virginia Wikipedia


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