Southern New England Telephone

The Southern New England Telephone Company
Frontier Communications of Connecticut
Private (Subsidiary of Frontier)
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 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 (1998-2014)
Frontier (2014-Present)
Website http://www.frontier.com/ct

The Southern New England Telephone Company (commonly referred to as SNET by its customers) is a local exchange carrier owned by Frontier Communications.

History

SNET logo, 1921-1939

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.[1]

SNET logo, 1969-1983
SNET logo, 1986

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

SNET logo, 2002-2003

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.

See also

External links

References

  1. AT&T SNET Fairfield County White Pages, Customer Service Guide page 14, "Local Toll-free Calling Areas", August 2006 edition
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