Pioneer Telephone

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This article is about the long distance service company. For the telephone cooperative in Oklahoma, see Pioneer Telephone Cooperative (Oklahoma). For telephone cooperative in Oregon, see Pioneer Telephone Cooperative (Oregon).

Pioneer Telephone is a privately held company with headquarters in Portland, Maine. It is a resale provider of long-distance telephone service in the United States.

Pioneer was established in 1989. In 2005 it was reported that the company would acquire the long-distance business of the bankrupt Adelphia Communications Corp. (also a resale provider of long-distance services, with about 110,000 customers in 27 states) for about $1.2 million.^[1] The sale was completed later that year.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Adelphia Communications to sell long-distance phone service, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 6, 2005, and Adelphia sells long-distance service for $1.2M, Denver Business Journal, July 6, 2005.
2. ^ Notification by Adelphia Telecommunications, Inc. and Telecom Management, Inc. d/b/a Pioneer Telephone of an Asset Purchase Agreement, December 1, 2005.

[edit] External links

• Pioneer Telephone official website