CenturyTel

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CenturyTel Inc.

Type of Company	Public (NYSE: CTL)
Founded	1930
Headquarters	Monroe, Louisiana, USA
Key people	Glen F. Post III, Chairman & CEO
Industry	Telecom Service - Domestic
Products	Telephony, Broadband Internet
Revenue	$2.479 Billion USD (2005)
Employees	6,900 (2005)
Slogan	Personal touch, advanced communications
Website	www.centurytel.com

CenturyTel, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) is a United States telecommunications firm, headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. The company primarily operates as a local exchange carrier in rural markets in 26 states, and is the eighth-largest local exchange carrier in the U.S. in terms of lines served.

Since its founding, it has grown in size by acquisitions. In 1998, it purchased 89,000 access lines and 19 exchanges in 21 northern Wisconsin communities from Ameritech. The affected customers had formerly been served by Wisconsin Bell. Ameritech's directory publishing operations serving those customers were also acquired. From 2000-2002, CenturyTel acquired Verizon's GTE assets in Missouri and Alabama.

CenturyTel operates a fiber optic transport system connecting cities in 16 states in the central United States. It also offers long distance services, dial-up Internet access, high-speed DSL Internet connections, and database management, printing, electronic pre-press and fulfillment services.

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	United States telephone companies
Alaska Power and Telephone Company \| AT&T \| BellSouth (pending acquisition) \| CenturyTel \| Cincinnati Bell \| Frontier \| Embarq \| Hawaiian Telcom \| Qwest \| TDS \| Verizon \| XO Communications \| Windstream
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