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A more complete corporate history would be useful - such as the antecedent to Sprint's local business. Was it a regional bell or CLEC?
--It wasn't a CLEC...it was an ILEC in it's own areas. Different independent LECs were purchased and added to the Sprint family. Jadenus 18:13, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
A slight nit. Most of the LEC purchases occurred while the company was Unitied Utilities and United Telecom. This predates the merger of GTE Sprint and US Telecom (to form US Sprint). The only one that I'm aware of that was actually purchased by Sprint was Centel. Jayscore 14:26, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I removed the following section from the article since it is uncited and opinion based. Will need more than just an example of the ad; a cite supporting "has become known" and "widely seen". "Very obnoxious" is simply an opinion and not very encylopedic. I'm afraid that a clean up of the text just leaves an example of non-notable advertising. Kuru talk 11:59, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Embarq engages in third-party billing that (knowingly or not) aids Internet fraud (enter your phone number and address for a free sample ...get billed $15 a month on your phone bill for "e-mail services"). Is this common to other phone companies? I'm not trying to malign the company unjustly; it's just something that happened to me personally, and I was surprised that there's no criticism of it in this article. -- Tysto 15:39, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
The article states "Embarq acts as a reseller for Sprint Long Distance services." I'm not sure this is accurate. Intra-LATA Embarq provides it's own long distance circuits, just like any other LEC. Is this saying that Embarq has an exclusive contract with Sprint for Inter-LATA circuits? I'd like to see a source for this. Jayscore 18:52, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
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Company type | Public |
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Industry | Telecommunications |
Founded | 17 May 2006 |
Headquarters | Overland Park, Kansas, USA |
Key people | Tom Gerke, CEO and Peter C. Brown, Chairman |
Revenue | $6.363 billion USD (2006) |
$784.0 million USD (2006) | |
Number of employees | 18,000 (2007) |
Website | Embarq |
I changed the infobox format to "Infobox Defunct Company" Embraq was merged in 2009 with CenturyTel, to form Centurylink. (The Infobox Defunct Company came from a modified Enron infobox.(I do recall this merger vaguely, I saw a Centurylink truck in my neighborhood a few months ago.)I put the old infobox up for achieve reasons. (Not all info was transferable.)-- The Navigators ( talk)-May British Rail Rest in Peace. 02:35, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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A more complete corporate history would be useful - such as the antecedent to Sprint's local business. Was it a regional bell or CLEC?
--It wasn't a CLEC...it was an ILEC in it's own areas. Different independent LECs were purchased and added to the Sprint family. Jadenus 18:13, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
A slight nit. Most of the LEC purchases occurred while the company was Unitied Utilities and United Telecom. This predates the merger of GTE Sprint and US Telecom (to form US Sprint). The only one that I'm aware of that was actually purchased by Sprint was Centel. Jayscore 14:26, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I removed the following section from the article since it is uncited and opinion based. Will need more than just an example of the ad; a cite supporting "has become known" and "widely seen". "Very obnoxious" is simply an opinion and not very encylopedic. I'm afraid that a clean up of the text just leaves an example of non-notable advertising. Kuru talk 11:59, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Embarq engages in third-party billing that (knowingly or not) aids Internet fraud (enter your phone number and address for a free sample ...get billed $15 a month on your phone bill for "e-mail services"). Is this common to other phone companies? I'm not trying to malign the company unjustly; it's just something that happened to me personally, and I was surprised that there's no criticism of it in this article. -- Tysto 15:39, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
The article states "Embarq acts as a reseller for Sprint Long Distance services." I'm not sure this is accurate. Intra-LATA Embarq provides it's own long distance circuits, just like any other LEC. Is this saying that Embarq has an exclusive contract with Sprint for Inter-LATA circuits? I'd like to see a source for this. Jayscore 18:52, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
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Founded | 17 May 2006 |
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Key people | Tom Gerke, CEO and Peter C. Brown, Chairman |
Revenue | $6.363 billion USD (2006) |
$784.0 million USD (2006) | |
Number of employees | 18,000 (2007) |
Website | Embarq |
I changed the infobox format to "Infobox Defunct Company" Embraq was merged in 2009 with CenturyTel, to form Centurylink. (The Infobox Defunct Company came from a modified Enron infobox.(I do recall this merger vaguely, I saw a Centurylink truck in my neighborhood a few months ago.)I put the old infobox up for achieve reasons. (Not all info was transferable.)-- The Navigators ( talk)-May British Rail Rest in Peace. 02:35, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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