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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Iowa telecommunications company}}<br />
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{{Infobox company<br />
| name = Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc.<br />
| logo = <br />
| type = [[Private company|Private]]<br />
| genre = <br />
| foundation = 1999<br />
| founder = <br />
| location_city = <!-- this parameter modifies "Headquarters" --> <br />
| location_country = <br />
| location = 400 W 4th St. N.<br />[[Newton, Iowa]] 50208<br />
| origins = <br />
| key_people = <br />
| area_served = <br />
| industry = [[Telecommunications]]<br />
| products = Network and communication equipment<br />
| services = Phone, Internet, and TV<br />
| revenue = <br />
| operating_income = <br />
| net_income = <br />
| num_employees = 800<br />
| parent = <br />
| divisions =<br />
| subsid = <br />
| owner = <!-- this parameter modifies "CEO" --> [[Alan Wells]]<br />
| company_slogan = <br />
| homepage = http://www.iowatelecom.com<br />
| dissolved = <br />
| footnotes = <br />
}}<br />
'''Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc.''', commonly known as '''Iowa Telecom''', provided [[Plain old telephone service|local telephone service]] to former [[GTE]] customers in the U.S. states of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Minnesota. Iowa Telecom was founded in 1999 as a partnership between Iowa Network Services and [[ING Barings]]. It acquired the assets of [[GTE Midwest]], which served [[Iowa]] following [[Bell Atlantic]]'s purchase of [[GTE]]. It had 257,700 access lines and served 435 communities in Iowa.{{when|date=November 2017}}{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}<br />
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In 2002 Iowa Telecom bought PC Partner Communications and Zumatel Communications.<br />
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On February 7, 2008, Iowa Telecom bought Lakedale Communications, Sherbtel Comminuations, Conntections-ETC, and SOMA, all located in Minnesota. At that time it also acquired Willinet in New York.<br />
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On November 24, 2009, Iowa Telecom was acquired by [[Windstream]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.windstream.com/section_display.cfm?section_id=10 |title=Windstream History<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2011-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823054938/http://news.windstream.com/section_display.cfm?section_id=10 |archive-date=2011-08-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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Its telephone directories were published by Pinnacle Publishing.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[IPKall]]<br />
* [[RtBrick]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070409061327/http://www.iowatelecom.com/ Company website]<br />
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{{United States telephone companies}}<br />
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[[Category:Windstream Communications]]<br />
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