Consolidated Communications provides data, internet, voice, managed and hosted, cloud and IT services to business customers,[2] and internet, TV, phone, and home security services to residential customers.[3] It began trading on the NASDAQ under ticker symbol CNSL in 2005[4] and went private in December 2024.
History
Consolidated Communications was founded as the Mattoon Telephone Company in 1894 by Dr. Iverson A. Lumpkin in Mattoon, Illinois.
In 1924, the company became the Illinois Consolidated Telephone Company (ICTC) and began acquiring telephone companies in the region over the next several decades, including telephone companies in Christian County, Montgomery County, the Illinois Southeastern Telephone Company and the Effingham, Illinois, exchange from Illinois Bell.
In 1984, Consolidated Communications, Inc. (CCI) was formed as the parent company of ICTC, Consolidated Communications Directories and Consolidated Market Response.[5]