Embarq Corporation (stylized as EMBARQ) was the largest independent local exchange carrier in the United States (below the Baby Bells), serving customers in 18 states and providing local, long-distance, high-speed data and wireless services to residential and business customers. It had been formerly the local telephone division (LTD) of Sprint Nextel until 2006, when it was spun off as an independent company. Embarq produced more than $6 billion in revenues annually, and had approximately 18,000 employees.
In 2009, it was purchased by CenturyTel, which rebranded as CenturyLink after the merger.
The Sprint Corporation was founded in 1899 by Cleyson Leroy Brown under the name of the "Brown Telephone Company" in the small town of Abilene, Kansas. The company was a landline telephone company that operated as a competitor to the Bell System.
In 1938, after emerging from bankruptcy, Brown changed its name to United Utilities. The company grew steadily through acquisitions and changed its name to United Telecommunications in 1972, at which time it provided local telephone service in many areas of the Midwest and South. United Telecom also operated many other types of businesses. In 1980 United Telecom launched a national X.25 data service, Uninet. To enter the long-distance voice market, United Telecom acquired ISACOMM in 1981 and US Telephone in 1984.
Embarq Corporation or Embarq Holdings Company LLC, a telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas.
Embarq may also refer to:
Closer.
Hard to breathe in.
The wake up.
I woke up to.
These tragic events.
Years spent in the shade.
In your shadow.
I know i can't be replaced.
Small times by build giant memory.
I haven't gone far from center in so long.
I built this place for you to live forever in.
Millionaires club penny pinched the pick pocket.
Time spent like we could live through our sons without having one.
We could come to dinner.
We could feel warm and safe.
Or we could live in this hotel.
So vacant.
Time takes it's toll.