Category at a glance
Member RespOrgs
42
Combined inventory (2026-04)
594,124
4-year change
-96,038
-13.9% · 2022-06 → 2026-04
Category Opportunism Index
3.52%
Harvested 14,102 / acquired 400,258
Members by inventory share
About this category
These are phone companies that focus their operations in a limited area. Most phone companies try to sound like big national companies but nearly all phone companies focus on specific coverage areas. This category may have very blurry lines but it's smaller than Large companies and bigger than tthere Smaller ones, though some could also be Small phone companies.
Members (42)
| # | Code | Name | Active numbers | Vanity % | Median age (months) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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TU | Excel Telecommunications | 132,099 | 8.9% | 1 |
| 2 |
|
JT | Comcast | 120,319 | 23.2% | 114 |
| 3 |
|
VT | Veracity | 95,807 | 14.3% | 20 |
| 4 |
|
NU | Navigata | 66,868 | 18.1% | 62 |
| 5 |
|
FL | Frontier | 34,451 | 27.2% | 108 |
| 6 |
|
QE | Cox Communications | 31,535 | 25.3% | 81 |
| 7 |
|
DB | Cincinnati Bell | 19,516 | 20.1% | 17 |
| 8 |
|
EY | Cablevision Lightpath | 15,212 | 29.8% | 60 |
| 9 |
|
HX | Hawaiian Telcom | 14,836 | 19.0% | 238 |
| 10 |
|
IT | Iristel | 14,163 | 35.8% | 16 |
| 11 |
|
CE | RCN | 11,269 | 22.8% | 49 |
| 12 |
|
HD | Line Systems | 6,843 | 25.3% | 83 |
| 13 |
|
BI | Voce Telecom | 5,785 | 18.6% | 47 |
| 14 |
|
GC | GCI Com | 4,481 | 26.3% | 176 |
| 15 |
|
DE | Suddenlink | 4,336 | 21.5% | 103 |
| 16 |
|
BF | Big River Telephone LLC | 3,869 | 30.5% | 47 |
| 17 |
|
IS | Aureon | 3,509 | 25.7% | 104 |
| 18 |
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EE | Advanced Tel | 3,071 | 21.2% | 183 |
| 19 |
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NB | FirstLight Fiber | 1,550 | 25.5% | 136 |
| 20 |
|
FB | Beanfield Tech | 1,490 | 22.7% | 41 |
| 21 |
|
PZ | Telepacific | 935 | 6.5% | 71 |
| 22 |
|
IO | Iowa Comm Network | 584 | 28.5% | 7 |
| 23 |
|
MP | Mpower Communications | 516 | 17.5% | 72 |
| 24 |
|
VV | Videotron | 284 | 29.6% | 182 |
| 25 |
|
YR | WhiteSky | 281 | 27.2% | 96 |
| 26 |
|
XI | FairPoint Communications | 216 | 27.7% | 195 |
| 27 |
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AF | Aeneas Communications, LLC | 109 | 29.9% | 130 |
| 28 |
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ED | LDDS Metromedia | 71 | 22.6% | 233 |
| 29 |
|
SK | Shaw Business | 15 | 100.0% | 63 |
| 30 |
|
ON | Oxford Networks | 14 | — | — |
| 31 |
|
OO | Inteliquent | 14 | — | — |
| 32 |
|
AE | Logix Communications | 14 | — | — |
| 33 |
|
DJ | TNCI | 14 | — | — |
| 34 |
|
OG | Clear Rate | 14 | — | — |
| 35 |
|
SN | Southern New England Telephone | 12 | — | — |
| 36 |
|
CA | Wavecom Solutions | 11 | 20.0% | 232 |
| 37 |
|
JV | Distributel | 11 | — | — |
| 38 |
|
DF | American Data Networks | 0 | — | — |
| 39 |
|
HK | Hickory Tech | 0 | — | — |
| 40 |
|
BL | Voyce | 0 | — | — |
| 41 |
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XE | Astound Broadband | 0 | — | — |
| 42 |
|
LC | Consolidated Communications | 0 | — | — |
Combined trajectory (all members)
| Month | Inventory | Acquired | Harvested | Lost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-06 | 690,162 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022-07 | 689,711 | 3,934 | 83 | 4,385 |
| 2022-08 | 684,741 | 2,144 | 1 | 7,114 |
| 2022-09 | 683,073 | 9,494 | 36 | 11,162 |
| 2022-10 | 702,264 | 22,768 | 3 | 3,577 |
| 2022-11 | 728,870 | 30,863 | 14 | 4,257 |
| 2022-12 | 731,102 | 5,622 | 1 | 3,390 |
| 2023-01 | 727,261 | 3,514 | 10 | 7,355 |
| 2023-02 | 722,581 | 1,110 | 5 | 5,790 |
| 2023-03 | 722,188 | 2,231 | 1 | 2,624 |
| 2023-04 | 714,371 | 3,613 | 7 | 11,430 |
| 2023-05 | 713,817 | 1,809 | 3 | 2,363 |
| 2023-06 | 712,456 | 1,455 | 2 | 2,816 |
| 2023-09 | 700,695 | 5,137 | 7 | 16,898 |
| 2023-10 | 674,506 | 1,553 | 3 | 27,742 |
| 2023-11 | 685,032 | 17,123 | 10 | 6,597 |
| 2023-12 | 602,695 | 21,656 | 115 | 103,993 |
| 2024-02 | 675,544 | 91,262 | 12,141 | 18,413 |
| 2024-03 | 676,372 | 2,714 | 6 | 1,886 |
| 2024-05 | 674,790 | 4,400 | 4 | 5,982 |
| 2024-06 | 616,892 | 1,569 | 14 | 59,467 |
| 2024-07 | 614,586 | 624 | 1 | 2,930 |
| 2024-08 | 615,055 | 3,682 | 1 | 3,213 |
| 2024-09 | 608,468 | 758 | 7 | 7,345 |
| 2024-10 | 609,339 | 2,871 | 15 | 2,000 |
| 2024-11 | 608,095 | 1,216 | 2 | 2,460 |
| 2024-12 | 603,560 | 956 | 6 | 5,491 |
| 2025-01 | 600,617 | 3,527 | 46 | 6,470 |
| 2025-02 | 584,827 | 561 | 6 | 16,351 |
| 2025-03 | 584,827 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-04 | 565,684 | 3,879 | 10 | 23,022 |
| 2025-05 | 530,501 | 4,356 | 8 | 39,539 |
| 2025-06 | 528,634 | 644 | 8 | 2,511 |
| 2025-07 | 506,299 | 725 | 18 | 23,060 |
| 2025-08 | 503,911 | 751 | 4 | 3,139 |
| 2025-09 | 506,324 | 4,720 | 47 | 2,307 |
| 2025-10 | 477,034 | 511 | 2 | 29,801 |
| 2025-11 | 468,609 | 712 | 0 | 9,137 |
| 2025-12 | 467,357 | 953 | 1 | 2,205 |
| 2026-01 | 465,717 | 631 | 2 | 2,271 |
| 2026-02 | 464,742 | 819 | 1 | 1,794 |
| 2026-03 | 463,655 | 501 | 3 | 1,588 |
| 2026-04 | 594,124 | 132,890 | 1,448 | 2,421 |