Regional Phone Company

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Regional Phone Company

A regional or local phone company.

Category at a glance

Member RespOrgs
42
Combined inventory (2026-06)
658,482
4-year change
-39,033
-5.6% · 2018-03 → 2026-06
Category Opportunism Index
1.80%
Harvested 17,215 / acquired 956,526

Members by inventory share

About this category

These are phone companies that focus their operations in a limited area. Most phone companies try to sound like big national companies but nearly all phone companies focus on specific coverage areas. This category may have very blurry lines but it's smaller than Large companies and bigger than tthere Smaller ones, though some could also be Small phone companies.

Members (42)

# Code Name Active numbers Vanity % Median age (months)
1 TU Excel Telecommunications 200,348 11.6% 3
2 JT Comcast 119,720 28.8% 116
3 VT Veracity 95,828 17.3% 22
4 NU Navigata 66,708 21.7% 64
5 FL Frontier 33,798 33.5% 110
6 QE Cox Communications 31,317 31.9% 77
7 DB Cincinnati Bell 17,494 24.8% 19
8 EY Cablevision Lightpath 15,171 37.2% 62
9 HX Hawaiian Telcom 14,836 23.0% 240
10 IT Iristel 14,469 41.9% 18
11 CE RCN 11,245 27.8% 51
12 HD Line Systems 6,450 30.2% 85
13 BI Voce Telecom 5,779 23.5% 49
14 GC GCI Com 4,456 31.1% 178
15 DE Suddenlink 4,323 26.9% 105
16 BF Big River Telephone LLC 3,875 37.8% 49
17 IS Aureon 3,475 31.9% 106
18 EE Advanced Tel 3,074 25.6% 185
19 NB FirstLight Fiber 1,533 33.4% 126
20 FB Beanfield Tech 1,497 29.8% 42
21 PZ Telepacific 936 9.2% 73
22 IO Iowa Comm Network 564 36.4% 9
23 MP Mpower Communications 516 19.7% 74
24 YR WhiteSky 281 31.3% 98
25 VV Videotron 273 36.9% 184
26 XI FairPoint Communications 216 35.8% 197
27 AF Aeneas Communications, LLC 109 37.1% 132
28 LDDS Metromedia ED LDDS Metromedia 71 27.0% 235
29 SK Shaw Business 15 100.0% 65
30 DJ TNCI 15 · ·
31 ON Oxford Networks 14 · ·
32 OO Inteliquent 14 · ·
33 AE Logix Communications 14 · ·
34 OG Clear Rate 14 · ·
35 SN Southern New England Telephone 12 · ·
36 CA Wavecom Solutions 11 33.3% 234
37 JV Distributel 11 · ·
38 DF American Data Networks 0 · ·
39 HK Hickory Tech 0 · ·
40 BL Voyce 0 · ·
41 XE Astound Broadband 0 · ·
42 LC Consolidated Communications 0 · ·

Combined trajectory (all members)

MonthInventoryAcquiredHarvestedLost
2018-03 697,515 0 0 0
2018-06 704,897 29,821 219 22,439
2018-09 722,265 35,644 61 18,276
2018-10 721,005 3,859 82 5,119
2018-11 722,368 6,474 10 5,111
2018-12 715,586 1,918 15 8,700
2019-01 714,176 3,635 28 5,045
2019-02 715,470 5,428 14 4,134
2019-03 714,746 4,933 13 5,657
2019-04 747,827 38,470 11 5,389
2019-05 751,307 8,508 8 5,028
2019-06 751,783 4,728 15 4,252
2019-08 697,668 7,272 13 61,387
2019-09 747,767 53,629 6 3,530
2019-10 741,963 5,809 4 11,613
2019-11 740,933 9,806 12 10,836
2019-12 744,544 7,290 5 3,679
2020-01 744,053 3,976 9 4,467
2020-02 745,864 6,663 6 4,852
2020-03 750,043 8,038 7 3,859
2020-04 750,945 4,605 8 3,703
2020-05 750,885 4,869 12 4,929
2020-06 748,529 4,527 7 6,883
2020-07 748,447 5,314 5 5,396
2020-08 749,243 6,040 4 5,244
2020-09 742,423 4,825 118 11,645
2020-10 740,472 3,216 13 5,167
2020-11 740,193 6,285 45 6,564
2020-12 739,000 3,745 8 4,938
2021-01 740,297 6,159 13 4,862
2021-02 734,259 2,749 17 8,787
2021-03 727,822 6,532 3 12,969
2021-04 725,528 3,779 9 6,073
2021-05 723,336 3,712 5 5,904
2022-05 689,773 44,126 675 77,689
2022-06 690,162 6,151 26 5,762
2022-07 689,711 3,934 83 4,385
2022-08 684,741 2,144 1 7,114
2022-09 683,073 9,494 36 11,162
2022-10 702,264 22,768 3 3,577
2022-11 728,870 30,863 14 4,257
2022-12 731,102 5,622 1 3,390
2023-01 727,261 3,514 10 7,355
2023-02 722,581 1,110 5 5,790
2023-03 722,188 2,231 1 2,624
2023-04 714,371 3,613 7 11,430
2023-05 713,817 1,809 3 2,363
2023-06 712,456 1,455 2 2,816
2023-07 689,711 51,053 233 73,798
2023-08 701,687 75,942 399 63,966
2023-09 700,695 2,304 3 3,296
2023-10 674,506 1,553 3 27,742
2023-11 685,032 17,123 10 6,597
2023-12 602,695 21,656 115 103,993
2024-02 675,544 91,262 12,141 18,413
2024-03 676,372 2,714 6 1,886
2024-04 677,004 3,587 1 2,955
2024-05 674,790 859 4 3,073
2024-06 616,892 1,569 14 59,467
2024-07 614,586 624 1 2,930
2024-08 615,055 3,682 1 3,213
2024-09 608,468 758 7 7,345
2024-10 609,339 2,871 15 2,000
2024-11 608,095 1,216 2 2,460
2024-12 603,560 956 6 5,491
2025-01 600,617 3,527 46 6,470
2025-02 584,827 561 6 16,351
2025-03 584,827 0 0 0
2025-04 565,684 3,879 10 23,022
2025-05 530,501 4,356 8 39,539
2025-06 528,634 644 8 2,511
2025-07 506,299 725 18 23,060
2025-08 503,911 751 4 3,139
2025-09 506,324 4,720 47 2,307
2025-10 477,034 511 2 29,801
2025-11 468,609 712 0 9,137
2025-12 467,357 953 1 2,205
2026-01 465,717 631 2 2,271
2026-02 464,742 819 1 1,794
2026-03 463,655 501 3 1,588
2026-04 594,124 132,890 1,448 2,421
2026-05 604,633 11,801 298 1,292
2026-06 658,482 57,724 680 3,875