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`!SNET America, Inc.`! is a long-distance telephone company owned by `F33f`_`[Frontier Communications`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Frontier_Communications]`_`f that serves `F33f`_`[Connecticut`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Connecticut]`_`f with customers in other states. SNET America was formed by `F33f`_`[Southern New England Telecommunications`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Southern_New_England_Telecommunications]`_`f Corp. in 1993`:cite-ref-1[`F5bf`_`[1`#cite-note-1]`_`f] to compete with other long-distance carriers within Connecticut. SNET America does business as `!Frontier Communications`!. It is distinct from `F33f`_`[Frontier Communications Online and Long Distance`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Frontier_Communications_Online_and_Long_Distance]`_`f and Citizens Communications of America, the other core long-distance units of Frontier.

SNET America came under the ownership of SBC Communications in 1998. In 2003, SNET America began doing business as `!SBC Long Distance East`!. In 2005, when SBC changed its name to `F33f`_`[AT&T`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=AT&T]`_`f, SNET America began doing business as `!AT&T Long Distance East`!.

On December 17, 2013, `F33f`_`[AT&T`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=AT&T]`_`f announced plans to sell SNET America and its companion `F33f`_`[incumbent local exchange carrier`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Incumbent_local_exchange_carrier]`_`f `F33f`_`[Southern New England Telephone`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Southern_New_England_Telephone]`_`f to `F33f`_`[Frontier Communications`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Frontier_Communications]`_`f for $2 billion.`:cite-ref-2[`F5bf`_`[2`#cite-note-2]`_`f]

The sale to Frontier closed on October 25, 2014. SNET America then began doing business as `!Frontier Long Distance`!.

>>References

`:cite-note-1`!1.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-1]`_`f Colorado Secretary of State

`:cite-note-2`!2.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-2]`_`f "AT&T Announces Plans to Sell Connecticut Wireline Operations to Frontier Communications for $2.0 Billion".

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