(LITTLE ROCK)Little Rock will get a regional headquarters with about 100 employees when Verizon Wireless completes its purchase of Alltel Corp., and Verizon may expand a call center already in ...READ MORE

(NEW YORK)Shares of CenturyTel Inc. jumped Tuesday after the regional telecommunications service provider raised its annual dividend and sped up its $385 million share buyback program.READ MORE

(NEW YORK)An Oppenheimer analyst said Wednesday he is taking a more cautious stance on shares of rural local exchange carriers because of regulatory concerns. Rural local exchange carriers a...READ MORE

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.)Broadband services provider Windstream Corp. said Friday its first-quarter profit climbed 24 percent on customer growth. Net income rose to $123.7 million, or 27 cents per share, c...READ MORE

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.)Windstream Corp. sells landline phone service in rural areas, but the company told shareholders Thursday that its offering of broadband Internet and digital television service cont...READ MORE

(NEW YORK)Jeffrey Gardner, the president and chief executive of rural telecommunications carrier Windstream Corp., received a compensation package valued at $4.2 million in 2007 _ a 58 perce...READ MORE

(NEW YORK)Shares of several telecom carriers inched higher even as Wall Street declined as investors worried about what JPMorgan Chase's buyout of troubled Bear Stearns means for the struggl...READ MORE