Template talk:United States telephone companies

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[edit] Criteria

There are hundreds (thousands?) of telephone companies in the US. I've noticed some rather obscure companies creeping on to this list. I should have probably given this more thought when starting this template, but I'd like to try to come up with some criteria to keep this template manageable. I suggest a minimum of 100,000 access lines for inclusion. This makes little change to the template, except for the exclusion of the recently-added Seaport Capital, and the swapping of Alaska Power and Telephone Company for Alaska Communications Systems, which was my earlier mistake. I've modified the template accordingly and have also changed it to use Template:Navigation

Access Lines

Company	Lines	Source
ACS	197,400	[1]
AT&T	25.3m+18.8m (BellSouth)	[2]
CenturyTel	2.124m	[3]
Cincinnati Bell	994,000	[4]
Deltacom	375,000	[5]
Embarq	6.9m	[6]
FairPoint	1.6m	[7]
Frontier	2.530m	[8]
Hawaiian Telcom	615,300	[9]
Qwest	14.7m	[10]
TDS	1.1m	[11]
Verizon	46.0m	[12]
Windstream	3.2m	[13]
Alaska Power and Telephone Company	13,000	[14]
Seaport Capital	4,000+25,000+7,500	[15]

Afiler 04:31, 18 February 2007 (UTC)