Iowa Telecom
Encyclopedia
Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc., commonly known as Iowa Telecom, provided local telephone service
to former GTE
customers in Iowa
. Iowa Telecom was founded in 1999 as a partnership between Iowa Network Services and ING Barings. It acquired the assets of GTE Midwest
that served Iowa
following Bell Atlantic's purchase of GTE
. As of (date?), it had 257,700 access lines and served 435 communities in Iowa.(ref?)
On June 1, 2010 Iowa Telecom was acquired by Windstream.
Its telephone directories were published by Pinnacle Publishing.
Plain old telephone service
Plain old telephone service is the voice-grade telephone service that remains the basic form of residential and small business service connection to the telephone network in many parts of the world....
to former GTE
GTE
GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System....
customers in Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
. Iowa Telecom was founded in 1999 as a partnership between Iowa Network Services and ING Barings. It acquired the assets of GTE Midwest
GTE Midwest
GTE Midwest, Inc. was a GTE operating company formed in 1993 upon the split off of some GTE local telephone operations from GTE North. GTE Midwest served Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota, and included the former operations of Contel in Iowa and Missouri....
that served Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
following Bell Atlantic's purchase of GTE
GTE
GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System....
. As of (date?), it had 257,700 access lines and served 435 communities in Iowa.(ref?)
On June 1, 2010 Iowa Telecom was acquired by Windstream.
Its telephone directories were published by Pinnacle Publishing.