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Business Description
Embarq Corporation operates as an incumbent local exchange carrier providing communications services in the United States. It provides local voice and data services, including high-speed Internet, for customers within its local service territories. The company also provides access to its local network and other wholesale communications services for other carriers; sells equipment, materials, and supplies, which include business communication systems, telephones and accessories, and network access equipment to the communications and cable industries; and offers various other services to residential and business customers. In addition, it provides wireless, video, and nationwide long distance services to customers within its local service territories through agency relationships. The company has operations principally in Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, New Jersey, Minnesota, Kansas, South Carolina, Washington, Oregon, Nebraska, and Wyoming. As of March 31, 2006, it offered regulated local communications services with approximately 7.26 million consumer and business access lines. The company, formerly New Local Company, was founded in 1899 and is based in Overland Park, Kansas. Embarq Corporation was formerly a subsidiary of Sprint Nextel Corporation.