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Pioneer Telephone
Company typePrivate
IndustryTelecommunications
HeadquartersPortland, Maine, United States
Websitewww.pioneertelephone.com

Pioneer Telephone is a privately held company with headquarters in Portland, Maine, United States, it was founded by Peter Bouchard, who continues to run the company today. It is a facility-based telecommunication carrier of long-distance, local and UCaas telephone service in the United States. As of October 2011, Pioneer Telephone had more than 2,700,000 customers in 48 states.

In 2005, Pioneer Telephone purchased the long-distance telephone business of bankrupt Adelphia Communications Corporation for about $22.5M and $180m in indemnification guarantees;[1] the sale was completed later that year.[2] Adelphia's phone service had 1,110,000 customers in 27 states(telephone & long-distance services).

In November 2008, Pioneer Telephone purchased all the residential and small-to-medium-sized business customers from Level 3 Communications in Denver, CO Pioneer's upper management [1] stated that they would roll out local service in 15 states in 2009.[3]

References

  1. ^ Adelphia Communications to sell long-distance phone service, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 6, 2005, Adelphia sells long-distance service for $1.1B, Denver Business Journal, July 6, 2005, and Notification by Adelphia Telecommunications, Inc. and Telecom Management, Inc. d/b/a Pioneer Telephone of an Asset Purchase Agreement Archived 2006-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, December 1, 2005.
  2. ^ Adelphia Communications to sell long-distance phone service, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 6, 2005, and Adelphia sells long-distance service for $1.1B, Denver Business Journal, July 6, 2005.Notification by Adelphia Telecommunications, Inc. and Telecom Management, Inc. d/b/a Pioneer Telephone of an Asset Purchase Agreement Archived 2006-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, December 1, 2005.
  3. ^ https://www.edockets.state.mn.us/EFiling/edockets/searchDocuments.do?method=showPoup&documentId=%7B332114BC-19E8-4B11-ADC4-2AA867F55F3E%7D&documentTitle=5375742


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