Frontier Communications of Virginia, Inc. is an operating company created in 2009 to take over operations in Crows, Virginia

Crows, Virginia

Crows is an unincorporated community in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States.-References:*...

 and Hematite, Virginia

Hematite, Virginia

Hematite is an unincorporated community in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States.-References:*...

 (located in Alleghany County

Alleghany County, Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 12,926 people, 5,149 households, and 3,866 families residing in the county. The population density was 29 people per square mile . There were 5,812 housing units at an average density of 13 per square mile...

 that had been served by Verizon Virginia

C&P Telephone

The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, usually known as C&P Telephone, was a d/b/a name for four Bell Operating Companies providing service to Washington, D.C., Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia....

 (formerly The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia).

Frontier Communications purchased Verizon West Virginia from Verizon Communications

Verizon Communications

Verizon Communications Inc. is a global broadband and telecommunications company and a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average...

 effective July 1, 2010. Because the Crows-Hematite central office, located on the state line of Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

 and West Virginia, received its dial tone from a central office in West Virginia

West Virginia

West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...

, operations in Alleghany County were split from the former C&P Telephone Company of Virginia and transferred to Frontier.

Unique

Frontier Communications of Virginia is one of several telephone companies owned by independents that were created from the split of former Bell System

Bell System

The Bell System was the American Bell Telephone Company and then, subsequently, AT&T led system which provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1877 to 1984, at various times as a monopoly. In 1984, the company was broken up into separate companies, by a U.S...

 operations. Northern New England Telephone Operations

Northern New England Telephone Operations

Northern New England Telephone Operations LLC is a telephone operating company founded in 2007 to take over the land lines in Maine and New Hampshire formerly operated by Verizon New England, a Bell Operating Company...

 and Telephone Operating Company of Vermont

Telephone Operating Company of Vermont

Telephone Operating Company of Vermont LLC is a telephone operating company owned by Northern New England Telephone Operations, a subsidiary of FairPoint....

 are both companies owned by FairPoint that Verizon split from Verizon New England in 2008. CenturyTel of the Midwest-Kendall

CenturyTel of the Midwest-Kendall

CenturyTel of the Midwest-Kendall, LLC is one of the CenturyLink operating companies in Wisconsin. The company's cities include Peshtigo, Kendall, and Marinette....

 owns lines that Ameritech

Ameritech

AT&T Teleholdings, Inc., formerly known as Ameritech Corporation , was a U.S. telecommunications company that arose out of the 1984 AT&T divestiture. Ameritech was one of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies that was created following the breakup of the Bell System...

 split from Wisconsin Bell

Wisconsin Bell

Wisconsin Bell, Inc. is the name of the Bell Operating Company serving Wisconsin. They were a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T Inc.....

 in 1998.