Brightspeed of Texas, Inc. is a telephone operating company owned by Brightspeed that provides local telephone and internet service in Texas.
The company serves communities in Texas such as Killeen, Copperas Cove, Athens, Gatesville, Harker Heights, Humble, Hutto, Kingwood, Porter, San Marcos, Stephenville, and Tyler.
[2] The company did business as CenturyLink from 2009-2022, following the acquisition of Embarq by CenturyTel.
On August 3, 2021, Lumen announced its sale of its local telephone assets in 20 states to Apollo Global Management, including Texas.
[3] Apollo announced the company acquiring the Lumen assets would trade under the name "Brightspeed".