Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company is a local telephone operating company.[1] Formerly a subsidiary ofUnited Telecom/Sprint and laterEmbarq andCenturyLink, through various mergers and spinoffs it is now a subsidiary ofBrightspeed.
Carolina Telephone's service area generally covered most ofNorth Carolina east ofInterstate 95 with the exception of areas aroundWilmington andGoldsboro and areas south ofU.S. Route 74. The company also served customers in the Sandhills and easternPiedmont of North Carolina, primarily south and west ofRaleigh. The company additionally had an outlying pocket of customers in theKernersville area of easternForsyth County.
