SNET
The Southern New England Telephone Company (commonly referred to as SNET by its customers) started operations on January 27, 1878 as the District Telephone Company of New Haven. Since its inception, SNET has held a monopoly on most of the telephone services in the state of Connecticut; the only exception is in a small part of the state near the New York state border where Verizon Communications provides telephone services.
In 1998, SBC Communications purchased SNET from independent long distance telephone company Sprint Corporation.
SNET and Cincinnati Bell were the only two companies in the old Bell System that were owned independently of AT&T; therefore, neither is considered a Regional Bell operating company (RBOC). Cincinnati Bell is still independent of any RBOC.
