Embarq Corporation (styled as EMBARQ ) is the largest independent local exchange operator in the United States (under Baby Bells), serves customers in 18 states and provides local, long- distance, high-speed data and wireless services for residential and business customers. Previously a local phone division (LTD) from Sprint Nextel to 2006, when separated as an independent company. Embarq generates over $ 6 billion in revenue annually, and has about 18,000 employees.
In 2009, it was bought by CenturyTel, which changed its name to CenturyLink after the merger.
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History
Company Phone Brown
The Sprint Corporation was founded in 1899 by Cleyson Leroy Brown under the name "Brown Call Company" in the small town of Abilene, Kansas. The company is a landline company operated as a competitor of the Bell System.
United Telecom
In 1938, after emerging from bankruptcy, Brown changed his name to United Utilities. The company grew steadily through acquisitions and changed its name to United Telecommunications in 1972, at which time it provided local phone service in many areas of the Midwest and South. United Telecom also operates many other types of businesses. In 1980, United Telecom launched the national X.25 data service, Uninet. To enter the voice market remotely, United Telecom acquired ISACOMM in 1981 and US Telephone in 1984.
Sprint
South Pacific Communications Company (SPCC), a unit of Pacific South Railroad, began providing long-distance telephone service shortly after the decision of MCI Telecommunications Corp v. FCC (Execunet II) at the end of 1978. Railroad has an extensive microwave communications system as long as its rights are used for internal communications. In 1972 they began selling the system's overtime to the company to be used as their own Private Line Network, thus avoiding AT & amp; T then on a pay phone and then extend it to a fiber optic cable that lies along the same rights as after Execunet Decree II at the end of 1978. Previous attempts to offer remote services were not approved by the Federal Communications Commission, even though the fax service company (SpeedFAX) has been allowed. SPCC is headquartered in Burlingame, California, where Sprint still has a technology lab at Adrian Court.
As mentioned above, the SPCC is only allowed to provide Private Path service and not to switch services. When MCI Communications releases EXECUNET, the SPCC goes to court with the FCC to get the rights to offer redirected services.
The SPRINT service was first marketed to six metropolitan areas, New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Anaheim. The switch is located in Los Angeles and New York. Customer, is required to have a Private Line connection to one of these switches to use the service, paying access fees per Path Private. Customers are then billed at 2.6 cents per tenth of a one-minute increase.
South Pacific Communications became part of the GTE in 1982 under the name of the Sprint GTE. GTE previously acquired the national X.25 provider, Telenet, in 1979.
In 1986, GTE Sprint merged with GTE Telenet, US Telecom, Uninet, and ISACOMM to form Sprint AS. This is a partnership owned by GTE and United Telecom. In 1989, United Telecom purchased a controlling stake in Sprint USA. In 1991, United Telecom completed its acquisition of Sprint USA. That same year, United Telecom changed its name to Sprint as largely the increase in Sprint brand recognition, as a result of the successful Candice Bergen "Dime Lady" advertising campaign.
In 1983, Telespectrum United Telecom began offering mobile phone services in the United area. In 1988, Telespectrum sold to Centel for $ 763 million to fund United's purchase of an additional 30% of Sprint USA. This purchase gives United a US Sprint operational control.
In 1993, Sprint joined Centel, which enabled Sprint to provide local services in 18 states and put them back in the wireless business. In late 1994 and early 1995, Sprint through Sprint Spectrum (a joint venture between Sprint and several cable companies) acquired the PCS spectrum across the country. Then in 1995 the company began offering wireless services under the Sprint PCS brand.
On October 5, 1999, Sprint and MCI WorldCom announced a $ 129 billion merger agreement between the two companies. The deal will be the largest corporate merger in history at the time. However, the deal did not work because of pressure from the US Department of Justice and the European Union because of concerns it created a monopoly.
In 2003, Sprint began to reunite their local, long-distance, wired, and wireless telecommunication units into a new company, marketing the joint venture as "One Sprint". In April 2004, separately traded wireless tracing stocks, "PCS", were absorbed into the ticker symbol "FON" of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the Sprint ticker symbol. (FON stands for "Fiber Optic Network", which is Sprint's right, but is also the homophone of the word "phone"). This was challenged in many lawsuits by Sprint PCS shareholders who claimed that the shares were devalued through a ratio of 1 share of PCS shares to 1/2 of FON shares. Sprint agreed to settle with a shareholder of $ 57.5 million.
Merger with Nextel and Embarq spinoff
In December 2004, Sprint announced it would acquire NEXTEL Communications, rename Sprint Nextel, and plans to shut down their local phone operations. The merger was completed in August 2005. In February 2006, the new name and logo for the spin-off, called Embarq, were revealed. Spin-off was completed in May 2006.
Acquisition by CenturyTel
On October 27, 2008, Embarq announced that it would be acquired by Monroe, Louisiana-based CenturyTel, Inc. in all $ 11.6 billion worth of stock deals, including an assumption of $ 5.8 billion in Embarq debt. CenturyTel's CEO, Glen Post, became CEO of a joint venture. On June 2, 2009, CenturyTel and Embarq announced that the combined entity will be called CenturyLink. The acquisition was completed on July 1, 2009. The change to CenturyLink occurred in October 2009.
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Former coverage area
Embarq area coverage includes former local exchange operator from Carolina Telephone & amp; Telegraph, United Telephone Company, and Centel. Embarq provides its local service in 19 states.
Products
Embarq focuses on selling landline, high-speed internet and DISH Network satellite services. Embarq offers service packages to their customers, with the convenience of one monthly bill and offers a discount for adding additional services.
The embarq telephone service is a traditional Plain-old telephone telephone system (POTS). Public offerings include features such as Caller ID, Call waiting, 3-way calling, Call forwarding, Voice mail, and Anonymous call rejection.
Embarq offers many remote plans, including indirect domestic direct calls.
Depending on the market and geographic region, Embarq offers several high-speed internet technologies. Embarq covers some of their territory with ADSL at speeds of 768 kbit/s, 1.5 Mbit/s, 3.0 Mbit/s, or 5.0 Mbit/s when channel conditions are allowed. In September 2007 Embarq started offering 10.0 Mbit/s to customers in Las Vegas. Starting January 2008, Embarq released a level of 10 Mbit/s across their tracks. Embarq offers fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) in additional markets, such as parts of Las Vegas, Nevada, North Carolina and Florida.
Embarq has an established partnership with EchoStar's Dish Network and offers a complete line of DISH Network services to its customers. Discounts are available when qualified DISH Network programming is bundled with other qualified Embarq products. In addition to the DISH Network partnership, Embarq also plans to test TV services (temporarily called Embarq TV) in the near future. Details are scarce, but the service is rumored to have become a fiber-to-node-IPTV service similar to AT & amp; T's U-verse. Testing is complete and Embarq/CenturyLink launches IPTV to its customer base in Jefferson City, MO in October 2009. CenturyTel provides IPTV feed to the Jefferson City transition office from its service in Columbia, MO. CenturyLink now offers Prism TV services in certain markets, based on Embarq TV. Embarq old customers who own DISH Network can still merge their services with CenturyLink, but only under the grandfather clause; New customers can only get DirecTV if Prism TV is unavailable.
Embarq provides wireless telephone service only for business accounts; they are closing the residential wireless business. Embarq provides business wireless telephone services in many areas. Embarq is operated as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) for Sprint PCS. Embarq utilizes the CDMA tape, and their handsets are connected primarily to the Sprint PCS tower. However, the Embarq handset is also capable of navigating to CDMA networks from other carriers.
Embarq DSL subscribers are offered a free EarthLink service until the establishment of Myembarq.com. In February 2007, Embarq customers were requested to switch to Myembarq and Embarqmail.
Criticism
Embarq previously worked with NebuAd, a behavioral advertising targeting company to track customers' internet browsing habits. The goal is to serve relevant ads based on search history. This has caused some legal and privacy issues, along with other Internet providers who use NebuAd and related services like Charter Communications and WOW !. Embarq's use of NebuAd prompted a letter from congressman Edward Markey. Embarq responded to Markey's Congress letter. Embarq later claimed that his participation with NebuAD was an experiment, and that they currently do not use NebuAd for targeted advertising behavior.
See also
- CenturyLink
- Sprint
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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