Industry Telecommunications Founded 1878 | Number of employees 2,700 | |
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Trading name Frontier Communications of Connecticut Type Private (Subsidiary of Frontier) Key people Dan McCarthy Chairman and CEO
Ken Arndt
East Region President
Paul Quick
Senior VP & General Manager
Connecticut
Edward O'Connor Jr
Sales VP,Connecticut
Joseph Ferraiolo
Area General Manager
New Haven County
Zachary Tomblin
Area General Manager
Eastern Connecticut Products Local Telephone Service, Broadband Headquarters New Haven, Connecticut, United States Parent organizations AT&T, Frontier Communications, Southern New England Telecommunications | ||
The Southern New England Telephone Company (commonly referred to as SNET by its customers) is a local exchange carrier owned by Frontier Communications.
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History
It started operations on January 27, 1878 as the District Telephone Company of New Haven. It was the founder of the first telephone exchange, as well as the world's first telephone book. Since its inception, SNET has held a monopoly on most of the telephone services in the state of Connecticut; the only remaining exceptions are the Greenwich and Byram exchanges where Verizon New York provides telephone service.
SNET and Cincinnati Bell were the only two companies in the old Bell System that the old AT&T only had a minority stake in; by 1983, AT&T's stake was only 19.6 percent. Therefore, neither is considered a Bell Operating Company; rather, they are considered independents.
Sale to SBC
The Southern New England Telephone Company was purchased for $4.4 Billion in 1998 by SBC Communications, which subsequently purchased the old AT&T, taking its name as the "new" AT&T. Under AT&T The Southern New England Telephone Company was known as AT&T Connecticut.
In 2006, AT&T merged the operations of Southern New England Telecommunications into AT&T Teleholdings. Southern New England Telephone then became a subsidiary of the company originally known as Ameritech within the AT&T corporate structure.
On June 1, 2007, the operations of Woodbury Telephone were merged into Southern New England Telephone. Woodbury Telephone is now defunct, operating as part of SNET/AT&T Connecticut, and later Frontier.
Sale to Frontier
On October 24, 2014, Frontier Communications completed its purchase of The Southern New England Telephone Company from AT&T for $2 billion. This is the second former unit of the Bell System to be acquired by Frontier, the first being Frontier West Virginia (originally C&P Telephone of West Virginia) which it purchased from Verizon in 2010.
Today
The Southern New England Telephone Company currently does business as Frontier Communications of Connecticut.