Embarq

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Embarq Communications, Inc.
Type of Company	Public (NYSE: EQ)
Founded	May 17, 2006
Headquarters	Overland Park, Kansas, USA
Key people	Daniel R. Hesse, Chairman & CEO
Industry	Telecommunications
Products	Landline Telephone Service
Revenue	$6.254 billion USD (2006)
Net income	$878.0 million USD (2006)
Employees	14,500 (2005)
Website	Embarq

Embarq Communications, Inc., or EMBARQ, was formerly the local telephone division (LTD) of Sprint Nextel. It is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EQ.

The company is the fifth largest local exchange carrier in the United States (under the Baby Bells) and the largest independent local provider, serving customers in 18 states and providing local, long distance and high-speed data services to residential and business customers. The Las Vegas, Nevada metropolitan area is their largest market. [1] The company consists of approximately 20,000 employees.

Telephone directories for EMBARQ customers are published by R.H. Donnelley.

Approximately $3 billion in debt incurred from the Sprint Nextel merger was transferred to the new company. The company is estimated to have approximately $6 billion in revenues.

EMBARQ trademarks are the property of a subsidiary named Embarq Holdings Company LLC, commonly mistaken as the actual name of the publicly traded holding company, Embarq Corporation.

It began trading on the NYSE on May 18, 2006.

[edit] Coverage

EMBARQ's coverage territory covers that of the former ILEC companies of Carolina Telephone & Telegraph, United Telephone Company, and Centel (Central Telephone Company) which combined were part of Sprint Local prior to the spinoff of ILEC assets into EMBARQ. While the EMBARQ corporation was recently established, the companies heritage goes back to 1899. At that time, the genesis company was named Browns Local Telephone company.

Embarq provides its local service through operating companies. The states that it provides service to include:

• Florida
• Indiana
• Kansas
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Jersey
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia
• Washington
• Wyoming

[edit] Official Sites

• Embarq Corporation
• Embarq Logistics (Formerly Sprint North Supply)
• Embarq Wholesale Services

[edit] Competitors

• AT&T
• Verizon Communications
• Cox Communications
• BellSouth
• Qwest
• Time Warner Cable
• Vonage
• Windstream Communications --Formally Alltel, who spun off their landline division with Valor Telecom.

	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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Embarq Corporation
Corporate Directors: Peter C. Brown - Chairman and CEO | Steven A. Davis | Daniel R. Hesse | John P. Mullen | William A. Owens | Dinesh C. Paliwal | Stephanie M. Shern | Laurie A. Siegel
Assets Operating Companies: Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company | Central of Virginia | Central Telephone Company of Texas | Central Telephone Company | Sprint - Florida | United Telephone - Southeast | United Telephone Company of South Carolina | United Telephone Company of Ohio | United Telephone Company of Indiana | United Telephone Company of New Jersey | United Telephone Company of Pennsylvania | United Telephone Company of South Central Kansas | United Telephone Company of Minnesota | United Telephone Company of Missouri | United Telephone Company of the West | United Telephone Company of Texas | United Telephone of the Northwest
Annual Revenue: $6.7 billion USD ( FY 2005) | Employees: 20,000 | Stock Symbol: NYSE: EQ | Website: www.embarq.com