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645:Frontier Communications Online and Long Distance
511:Citizens Telecommunications Company of Tennessee
488:Citizens Telecommunications Company of Minnesota
500:Citizens Telecommunications Company of Nebraska
495:Citizens Telecommunications Company of New York
485:Citizens Telecommunications Company of Illinois
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220:On October 31, 1993, Contel of the South and
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681:1956 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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191:Tri-County Telephone Company, Incorporated
173:Continental Telephone Company of the South
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93:Local Telephone Service
84:Don Banowetz, President
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410:Frontier Press Release
244:Acquisition by Verizon
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361:References
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