Im doing some Yellow Page advertising and I plan on putting
advertisements in telephone books for all 50 states.  However to do
this I need to contact each telephone company to speak to someone in
their Yellow Page advertising department.  The problem is that I don't
know which states each company covers.

For example, SBC I belive is the primary telephone provider in
Michigan and Texas.  From what im told they cover 20 states, but when
I call them I can't find anyone to tell me exactly what states they
cover.  The same goes for Verizon.  I know they cover New York, and I
think they also cover Pensylvania, but I don't know what other states
they provide service to.

I need a list of all 50 states, and the name of the primary telephone
provider in each state.

When I mean Primary Telephone provider, im talking about the company
that physically ownes the lines in each state.  An example of this
would be in Michigan SBC ownes the lines in my area.  Now Granted a
company such as Talk America also serves my area, but they simply
lease the lines and do not put out an actual yellow page phone
directory.

Heres how I would like the Information....

Michigan------------- SBC--------- http://www.sbc.com
New York--------------Verizon----- http://www.verizon.com

From there I can look up the numbers and start planning my advertising.

Thank You

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 28 Mar 2005 01:17 PST

Hi metro25,

Please take a look at this and let me know if I'm on the right track:

Qwest
Qwest states include Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa,Minnesota,
Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South
Dakota,Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

"Dex Media, Inc. is the exclusive publisher of the official White and
Yellow Pages directories in print, Internet and CD-ROM formats for
Qwest Communications International Inc. The company publishes 259
directories in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana,
Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah,
Washington and Wyoming."

http://www.kelseygroup.com/news/2005/bend_050225.htm

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by metro25-ga on 28 Mar 2005 04:47 PST

Thats basically what im looking for, your on the right track :)

Thanks

Metro25-ga

Hi Metro25,

The following is the result of my research for primary telephone
companies in the United States:

?...The Modification of Final Judgment, or MFJ, created a new world.
Beginning in 1984, it broke up AT&T into a new smaller AT&T, which was
to provide long distance service in competition with other companies,
and seven regional Bell operating companies ("RBOCs") - Ameritech,
Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, Nynex, Pacific Telesis, Southwestern Bell
(now known as SBC Communications), and US West. There was also one
preexisting independent phone company, GTE Corporation, which was of a
comparable size. These seven regional RBOCs and GTE were to provide
local service where AT&T had previously been doing so. (Subsequent
mergers have reduced these companies to four: SBC Communications,
BellSouth, Verizon, and Qwest.)?

New Networks Institute 
http://www.newnetworks.com/judiciarylettertauzin.htm


An excellent source of information which includes the following:

The seven RBOCs were granted the right to: 

*Provide local service 
*Publish Yellow Pages directories 
*Provide Directory Assistance services 
*Use the Bell symbol 
*Direct Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) [now called
Telcordia], research and development facilities

can be found here:
Bell System Memorial
http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/bellopercomp.html


The following are the four primary telephone companies and the states
served. I also included the url for advertising information for the
respective directories.

Bellsouth
=========
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee

http://www.bellsouth.com/
Advertising: http://www.bellsouth.com/bapco/


Qwest
=====
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New
Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and
Wyoming

http://www.qwest.com/
Advertising: http://www.advertisewithdex.com/Dex/CDA/Products/Product_Sub-Category_Page.jsp?pid=1


SBC Communications
==================
Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas,
Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Wisconsin

http://www.sbc.com/
Advertising: http://www.sbcsmartyellowpages.com/


Verizon
=======
Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington D.C.

http://www22.verizon.com/
Advertising: http://verizon.superpages.com/prodserv/dirprods/white_pages.jsp


Here is the format you requested:

Alaska 	                Verizon 	        http://www22.verizon.com
Alabama		        Bellsouth		http://www.bellsouth.com
Arkansas                SBC			http://www.sbc.com
Arizona            	Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
California         	SBC 			http://www.sbc.com
Colorado         	Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
Connecticut*       	Verizon  		http://www22.verizon.com
                        SBC 			http://www.sbc.com
Delaware             	Verizon 		http://www22.verizon.com
Florida                 Bellsouth 		http://www.bellsouth.com
Georgia                	Bellsouth 		http://www.bellsouth.com
Hawaii                  Verizon 		http://www22.verizon.com
Idaho                   Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
Iowa                    Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
Illinois                SBC 			http://www.sbc.com
Indiana                 SBC 			http://www.sbc.com
Kansas                 	SBC 			http://www.sbc.com
Kentucky              	Bellsouth 		http://www.bellsouth.com
Louisiana             	Bellsouth 		http://www.bellsouth.com
Maine                   Verizon 		http://www22.verizon.com
Maryland              	Verizon		        http://www22.verizon.com
Massachusetts    	Verizon 		http://www22.verizon.com
Michigan              	SBC 			http://www.sbc.com
Minnesota            	Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
Mississippi           	Bellsouth 		http://www.bellsouth.com
Missouri               	SBC 			http://www.sbc.com
Montana              	Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
Nebraska            	Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
Nevada               	SBC 			http://www.sbc.com
New Hampshire    	Verizon 		http://www22.verizon.com
New Jersey        	Verizon 		http://www22.verizon.com
New Mexico        	Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
New York            	Verizon 		http://www22.verizon.com
North Carolina    	Bellsouth 		http://www.bellsouth.com
North Dakota      	Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
Ohio                    SBC 			http://www.sbc.com
Oklahoma          	SBC 			http://www.sbc.com
Oregon              	Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
Pennsylvania    	Verizon 		http://www22.verizon.com
Rhode Island    	Verizon 		http://www22.verizon.com
South Carolina  	Bellsouth 		http://www.bellsouth.com
South Dakota    	Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
Tennessee        	Bellsouth 		http://www.bellsouth.com
Texas                	SBC 			http://www.sbc.com
Utah                	Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
Vermont 		Verizon 		http://www22.verizon.com
Virginia 		Verizon 		http://www22.verizon.com
Washington     	        Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
Wisconsin 		SBC 			http://www.sbc.com
West Virginia     	Verizon                 http://www22.verizon.com
Wyoming                 Qwest 			http://www.qwest.com
Washington D.C.      	Verizon        		http://www22.verizon.com

*Note: New York Telephone Company (which was part of Nynex, now owned
by Verizon) also operated in one or two eastern counties of
Connecticut. The rest of Connecticut was SNET, an independent company
(now owned by SBC).
http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/bellopercomp.html


Search criteria:
primary "telephone provider" <state>
primary "telephone company" <state>
"telephone company" sbc verizon
"telephone company" sbc southbell
"telephone company" sbc qwest


I hope the information provided is helpful. If you have any questions
regarding my answer please don?t hesitate to ask before rating it.

Best regards,
Rainbow