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Brightspeed of Illinois LLC provides local access to voice communications networks. It offers local-exchange access and long-distance phone services, as well as dial-up and broadband Internet access to residential and business customers in rural markets of Central Illinois. The company was founded on April 20, 1998 and is headquartered in Monroe, LA.

CenturyTel, Inc., is a provider of high-quality voice, broadband and video services over its advanced communications networks to consumers and businesses in 33 states. It was engaged in an array of communications services, including local and long distance voice, wholesale local network access, high-speed Internet access, other data services and video services. It was founded in 1986 and is headquarted in Monroe, LA.