Regional Phone Company · Category

Category at a glance

Member RespOrgs

Combined inventory (2026-10)

780,710

4-year change

+83,195

+11.9% · 2018-03 → 2026-10

Category Opportunism Index

2.13%

Harvested 25,644 / acquired 1,203,434

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	TU	Excel Telecommunications	326,354	10.4%	2
2	JT	Comcast	118,466	28.6%	120
3	VT	Veracity	102,178	17.0%	26
4	NU	Navigata	66,475	21.7%	66
5	FL	Frontier	32,534	33.6%	113
6	QE	Cox Communications	26,329	31.1%	80
7	DB	Cincinnati Bell	15,769	24.6%	23
8	EY	Cablevision Lightpath	14,918	37.2%	66
9	HX	Hawaiian Telcom	14,801	23.1%	244
10	IT	Iristel	14,691	41.9%	22
11	CE	RCN	11,201	27.8%	55
12	HD	Line Systems	7,011	29.6%	89
13	BI	Voce Telecom	5,723	23.4%	53
14	GC	GCI Com	4,416	31.1%	182
15	DE	Suddenlink	4,289	27.0%	109
16	BF	Big River Telephone LLC	3,872	37.8%	53
17	IS	Aureon	3,346	31.8%	110
18	EE	Advanced Tel	3,068	25.5%	189
19	FB	Beanfield Tech	1,495	30.1%	46
20	NB	FirstLight Fiber	1,093	33.2%	131
21	PZ	Telepacific	935	8.9%	77
22	MP	Mpower Communications	516	19.7%	78
23	YR	WhiteSky	446	36.0%	76
24	VV	Videotron	270	36.9%	188
25	XI	FairPoint Communications	213	36.3%	208
26	AF	Aeneas Communications, LLC	110	36.8%	136
27	ED	LDDS Metromedia	71	27.0%	239
28	SK	Shaw Business	15	100.0%	69
29	IO	Iowa Comm Network	15	·	·
30	ON	Oxford Networks	14	·	·
31	AE	Logix Communications	14	·	·
32	DJ	TNCI	14	·	·
33	OG	Clear Rate	14	·	·
34	SN	Southern New England Telephone	12	·	·
35	CA	Wavecom Solutions	11	33.3%	238
36	JV	Distributel	11	·	·
37	DF	American Data Networks	0	·	·
38	HK	Hickory Tech	0	·	·
39	BL	Voyce	0	·	·
40	XE	Astound Broadband	0	·	·
41	LC	Consolidated Communications	0	·	·
42	OO	Inteliquent	0	·	·

Combined trajectory (all members)

Month	Inventory	Acquired	Harvested	Lost
2018-03	697,515	0	0	0
2018-06	704,897	29,821	219	22,439
2018-09	722,265	35,644	61	18,276
2018-10	721,005	3,859	82	5,119
2018-11	722,368	6,474	10	5,111
2018-12	715,586	1,918	15	8,700
2019-01	714,176	3,635	28	5,045
2019-02	715,470	5,428	14	4,134
2019-03	714,746	4,933	13	5,657
2019-04	747,827	38,470	11	5,389
2019-05	751,307	8,508	8	5,028
2019-06	751,783	4,728	15	4,252
2019-08	697,668	7,272	13	61,387
2019-09	747,767	53,629	6	3,530
2019-10	741,963	5,809	4	11,613
2019-11	740,933	9,806	12	10,836
2019-12	744,544	7,290	5	3,679
2020-01	744,053	3,976	9	4,467
2020-02	745,864	6,663	6	4,852
2020-03	750,043	8,038	7	3,859
2020-04	750,945	4,605	8	3,703
2020-05	750,885	4,869	12	4,929
2020-06	748,529	4,527	7	6,883
2020-07	748,447	5,314	5	5,396
2020-08	749,243	6,040	4	5,244
2020-09	742,423	4,825	118	11,645
2020-10	740,472	3,216	13	5,167
2020-11	740,193	6,285	45	6,564
2020-12	739,000	3,745	8	4,938
2021-01	740,297	6,159	13	4,862
2021-02	734,259	2,749	17	8,787
2021-03	727,822	6,532	3	12,969
2021-04	725,528	3,779	9	6,073
2021-05	723,336	3,712	5	5,904
2022-05	689,773	44,126	675	77,689
2022-06	690,162	6,151	26	5,762
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
2023-07	689,711	51,053	233	73,798
2023-08	701,687	75,942	399	63,966
2023-09	700,695	2,304	3	3,296
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
2024-04	677,004	3,587	1	2,955
2024-05	674,790	859	4	3,073
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
2026-05	604,633	11,801	298	1,292
2026-06	658,482	57,724	680	3,875
2026-07	645,324	1,317	2	14,475
2026-08	657,686	27,249	23	14,887
2026-09	803,373	196,556	6,966	50,869
2026-10	780,710	21,786	1,438	44,449