Largest Local Exchange Carriers

Incumbent and competing local exchange carriers ranked by assessable 2010 revenue in Arkansas 2009 AR Company Revenue Subsidiaries % Change, Total Residential Business No. of AR Contact Name, Title 2010 Address 2010 AR Revenue 2008-09 Lines Lines Lines Employees Contact Phone, E-mail 1 AT&T Corp. $394,596,489 $438,261,126 534,983 287,653 196,180 1,103 Michaela Flewallen, Revenue Report Contact AT&T Arkansas $367,934,376 -10.0% 526,880 287,653 188,077 (405) 291-7051, [email protected] AT&T Communications of the Southwest Inc. $20,455,657 8,103 0 8,103 AT&T Corp.1 $6,206,456 0 0 0 1010 N. St. Mary's St., Room 1324, San Antonio, TX 78215 2 CenturyLink2 $88,590,797 $97,385,320 167,980 121,996 42,894 322 Ted Hankins, Revenue Report Contact CenturyTel of Northwest Arkansas LLC $33,330,085 -9.0% 83,429 59,680 22,161 (318) 388-9416, [email protected] CenturyTel of Central Arkansas LLC $31,597,529 51,617 37,872 12,758 CenturyTel of Mountain Home Inc. $10,971,317 15,111 10,452 4,329 CenturyTel of Arkansas Inc. $10,884,454 15,086 11,647 3,276 CenturyTel of Redfield Inc. $900,517 1,407 1,207 186 CenturyTel of South Arkansas Inc. $672,814 1,067 914 145 CenturyTel of Northwest Louisiana Inc. $163,797 238 203 35 CenturyTel Fiber Co. II LLC $43,442 0 0 0 Embarq Payphone Services Inc.3 $15,243 0 0 0 Embarq Communications Inc.4 $5,406 0 0 0 CenturyTel of Missouri LLC $6,193 25 21 4 P.O. Box 4065, Monroe, LA 71211 3 Windstream Corp. $73,971,051 $75,037,209 167,025 70,071 83,072 1,139 Lezlie Young, Manager of Regulatory Reporting Windstream Arkansas LLC $41,086,054 -1.4% 87,787 61,819 15,203 (501) 748-5150, Windstream Communications Inc. $26,977,949 60,078 264 56,985 [email protected] Valor Telecommunications of Texas LP 5 $3,614,296 12,021 7,988 3,745 Windstream NuVox Arkansas Inc.6 $1,784,038 7,139 0 7,139 Windstream Southwest Long Distance LP 3 $508,714 0 0 0 4001 Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock, AR 72212 4 Cox Arkansas Telcom LLC $17,129,710 $14,596,795 51,115 36,111 15,004 339 Curt Stamp, Director of Regulatory Affairs 4901 S. 48th St., Johnson, AR 72762 17.4% (405) 418-7370, [email protected] 5 E. Ritter & Co. $7,257,786 $6,980,233 12,588 8,173 4,793 51 John D. Strode, Vice President Tri-County Telephone Co. Inc. (Harrison) $2,872,521 4.0% 5,774 5,670 731 (870) 336-2345, [email protected] E. Ritter Telephone Co. Inc. (Marked Tree) $2,359,937 3,288 2,431 742 E. Ritter Communications Inc. (Jonesboro) $2,025,328 3,526 72 3,320 2109 Fowler Ave., Jonesboro, AR 72401 6 Northern Arkansas Telephone Co. $6,576,482 $6,522,858 6,256 4,634 872 44 Steven G. Sanders, President Northern Arkansas Telephone Co. $6,295,433 0.8% 6,256 4,634 872 (870) 453-8811, [email protected] Natco Technologies Inc.3 $281,049 0 0 0 301 E. Main St., Flippin, AR 72634 7 Comcast Phone of Arkansas LLC $6,262,809 $5,749,473 0 0 0 0 Lisa Moglia, Director of Telephony Regulation 1 Comcast Center, Philadelphia, PA 19103 8.9% (215) 286-8667, [email protected] 8 Yelcot Holding Group $5,950,748 $6,109,443 9,129 6,778 2,100 55 Anne Schuhknecht, Secretary/Treasurer Mountain View Telephone Co. $3,362,518 -2.6% 6,456 4,784 1,470 (870) 425-3100, [email protected] Yelcot Telephone Co. $2,588,230 2,673 1,994 630 207 E. Fourth St., Mountain Home, AR 72653 9 Prairie Grove Telephone Co. $5,083,938 $5,240,744 8,086 6,514 1,333 40 Rick Reed, General Manager 139 N. Mock St., Prairie Grove, AR 72753 -3.0% (479) 846-7200, [email protected] 10 Sage Telecom Inc. $4,383,952 $5,639,815 8,896 8,476 420 0 Andrew Karl, Regulatory Compliance Manager 3300 E. Renner Road, Suite 350, Richardson, TX -22.3% (214) 495-4878, [email protected] 75082 11 Walnut Hill Telephone Co. $4,310,985 $4,608,653 4,351 3,343 652 20 William H. Thomas, Vice President of Highways 82 and 29, Lewisville, AR 71845 -6.5% Administrative Services (904) 688-0028, [email protected] 12 Southwest Arkansas Telephone Cooperative Inc. $4,038,267 $4,221,725 4,690 4,162 425 37 William P. Hegmann, General Manager 2601 East St., Texarkana, AR 72854 -4.3% (870) 653-8222, [email protected] 13 South Arkansas Telephone Co. $3,998,730 $4,376,163 3,102 2,335 607 22 Greg Ashcraft, Controller First and Main Street, Hampton, AR 71744 -8.6% (870) 942-4344, [email protected] 14 Arkwest Communications Inc. $3,173,355 $3,270,732 4,966 3,480 1,293 40 Todd Sanders, President and General Manager 205 E. Seventh St., Danville, AR 72833 -3.0% (479) 495-4200, [email protected] 15 Arkansas Telephone Co. Inc. $3,122,422 $3,419,970 9,608 5,420 1,423 23 Randy McCaslin, President P.O. Box 69, Clinton, AR 72031 -8.7% (501) 745-2114, [email protected] 16 TDS Telecom $2,867,418 $2,996,762 3,782 2,770 956 5 Jerry L. Miller, Accounting Manager Cleveland County Telephone Co. $2,220,945 -4.3% 2,829 2,250 543 (765) 522-0216, [email protected] Decatur Telephone Co. Inc. $646,473 953 520 413 24 Depot Square, Unit 2, Northfield, VT 05663 17 Madison County Telephone Co. $2,687,436 $2,705,857 3,418 2,488 834 24 Tom S. Shrum, President 113 Court St., Huntsville, AR 72740 -0.7% (479) 738-2121, [email protected] 18 Granite Telecommunications LLC $2,618,619 $2,185,656 5,731 0 5,731 0 Ross Weintraub, Revenue Report Contact 100 Newport Ave., Quincy, MA 02171 19.8% (866) 847-1500, [email protected] 19 Level 3 Communications Inc. $2,577,995 $3,176,253 9,825 0 9,825 6 Wanda West, Regulatory Report Contact Telcove Operations LLC $1,457,015 -18.8% 3,434 0 3,434 (814) 260-2445, [email protected] Level 3 Communications LLC $1,120,980 6,391 0 6,391 712 N. Main St., Coudersport, PA 16915 20 TW Telecom of Arkansas LLC $2,573,373 $2,775,635 8,413 0 8,413 11 Doug Forster, Annual Report Contact 124 W. Capitol, Suite 600, Little Rock, AR 72201 -7.3% (407) 740-8575, [email protected] 21 Verizon Communications $2,541,281 $4,349,479 4,655 2,037 2,618 29 Haleh Davary, Regulatory Compliance Analyst MCImetro Access Transmission Services LLC $2,532,520 -41.6% 4,655 2,037 2,618 (415) 228-1072, Verizon Select Services Inc. $8,761 0 0 0 [email protected] 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, Ashburn, VA 20147 22 Bellerud Communications LLC $2,504,444 $20,005 16,309 16,309 0 0 Aggie Gainer, Compliance Manager 6905 N. Wickham Road, Suite 403, Melbourne, FL 12,419.1% (321) 373-4342, [email protected] 32940 23 Pinnacle Communications $2,353,067 $2,115,907 1,194 1,025 129 17 M. Keith Gibson, President Lavaca Telephone Co. Inc.7 $2,305,064 11.2% 1,194 1,025 129 (479) 674-2211, [email protected] Pinnacle Telecom LLC $48,003 0 0 0 301 Hwy. 96 SW, Lavaca, AR 72941 24 Vantage Telecom LLC8 $1,993,848 $1,780,545 5,675 1,126 4,549 25 William T. Stuckey, President 300 Towson Ave., Fort Smith, AR 72901 12.0% (479) 494-0300, [email protected] 25 Central Arkansas Telephone Cooperative Inc. $1,643,607 $2,022,575 2,602 2,238 260 13 John S. "Steve" Faris, General Manager P.O. Box 130, Bismarck, AR 71929 -18.7% (501) 865-3283 Source: Annual reports filed with the Arkansas Public Service Commission1 Formerly AT&T Advanced Solutions 2 Formed by merger of CenturyTel and Embarq on July 1, 2009 3 Interexchange carrier 4 Interexchange carrier, doing business as CenturyLink Communications Inc. Researched by Kate Knable 5 Doing business as Windstream Communications Southwest 6 Acquired by Windstream Corp. on Feb. 8, 2010 7 Doing business as Pinnacle Communications 8 Doing business as Newroads Telecom