The Southern New England Telephone Company

Trade name	Frontier Communications of Connecticut
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1878 ; 146 years ago  ( 1878 )
Headquarters	New Haven , Connecticut
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
Number of employees	2700
Parent	SNET (1986?1998) SBC/AT&T Inc. (1998?2014) Frontier (2014?present)
Website	http://www.frontier.com/

The Southern New England Telephone Company (commonly referred to as SNETCo by its customers), doing business as Frontier Communications of Connecticut , is a local exchange carrier owned by Frontier Communications .

History [ edit ]

It started operations on January 28, 1878, as the District Telephone Company of New Haven . ^[1] 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. ^[2]

SNET and Cincinnati Bell were the only two companies in the old Bell System in which the old AT&T only held a minority stake; by 1983, AT&T's stake was only 19.6 percent. Therefore, both were considered independents rather than Bell Operating Companies .

Sale to SBC [ edit ]

SNET 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, SNET was known as AT&T Connecticut .

In 2006, AT&T merged the operations of SNET into AT&T Teleholdings , formerly Ameritech, making it a subsidiary of the latter.

On June 1, 2007, the operations of Woodbury Telephone were merged into SNET.

Sale to Frontier [ edit ]

On October 24, 2014, Frontier Communications completed its purchase of AT&T's Connecticut operations, including Southern New England Telephone and SNET America , for $2 billion. ^[3] The company began doing business as Frontier Communications of Connecticut . It 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 was purchased from Verizon in 2010.

See also [ edit ]

• List of United States telephone companies
• ConnNet

External links [ edit ]

• History ? University of Connecticut Libraries
• "AT&T Press Release Headlines & News from AT&T" . att.com . Retrieved 2017-08-09 .

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