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Brightspeed of Texas

Telephone operating company

Brightspeed of Texas, Inc. is a telephone operating company owned by Brightspeed that provides local telephone and internet service in Texas. The company serves communities in Texas such as Killeen, Copperas Cove, Athens, Gatesville, Harker Heights, Humble, Hutto, Kingwood, Porter, San Marcos, Stephenville, and Tyler.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Brightspeed of Texas, Inc. is a telephone operating company owned by Brightspeed that provides local telephone and internet service in Texas. The company serves communities in Texas such as Killeen, Copperas Cove, Athens, Gatesville, Harker Heights, Humble, Hutto, Kingwood, Porter, San Marcos, Stephenville, and Tyler.2

The story

Brightspeed of Texas was founded in 1956 as Central Telephone of Texas, a subsidiary of Centel. In 1992, Centel was acquired by Sprint, and Central of Texas began doing business under the Sprint name, but retained its legal name.

In 2006, the company was spun off into Embarq when Sprint Nextel spun off its local telephone operations.

The company did business as CenturyLink from 2009-2022, following the acquisition of Embarq by CenturyTel.

Sale to Brightspeed

On August 3, 2021, Lumen announced its sale of its local telephone assets in 20 states to Apollo Global Management, including Texas. Apollo announced the company acquiring the Lumen assets would trade under the name "Brightspeed". The sale closed on October 3, 2022. Central of Texas was then renamed Brightspeed of Texas.

From Wikipedia’s article on Brightspeed of Texas, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

  • plain old telephone service

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Timeline

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