Windstream Holdings
provider of voice and data network communications
Windstream Holdings, Inc., trading as Windstream Communications, is a provider of voice and data network communications to businesses across the United States. Under the Kinetic brand, it offers broadband, phone and digital streaming TV services to consumers within its coverage area. It is the ninth largest residential telephone provider in the country with service covering more than 8.1 million people in 21 states.
History
Valor Telecom was formed in 2000 to take over GTE Southwest assets that Verizon was selling following its acquisition of GTE. In 2006, Windstream Corporation was formed through the spinoff of Alltel's landline business and merger with Valor.
In 2007, Windstream Corp. purchased CT Communications for $585 million adding 158,000 access lines and 29,000 broadband customers. The 2009 acquisition of D&E Communications of Ephrata, Pennsylvania for $330 million added a further 165,000 access lines and 44,000 broadband customers.
The next year's purchase of Iowa Telecom for $1.1 billion added 256,000 access lines, 95,000 broadband customers, 26,000 digital TV customers and a presence in rural Iowa and Minnesota. In 2010, the firm acquired Nuvox, previously formed from a merger of NuVox Communications, NewSouth Communications, FDN Communications, Gabriel Communications and Trivergent Communications.
On August 17, 2010, it announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Q-Comm Corporation in a transaction valued at approximately $782 million.
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