CenturyTel of Colorado, Inc. is a telephone operating company owned by Lumen Technologies that provides local telephone service in Colorado, including Pagosa Springs.
[1] The company is separate from CenturyTel of Eagle and Qwest Corporation, the other local telephone companies CenturyLink owns in Colorado.
The company is a reincorporation of the original company Universal Telephone owned serving Colorado, as the company forgot to file an annual report with the state and suffered an administrative dissolution.
[citation needed] The company was acquired by Century Telephone in 1990 and in 1996 changed its name to Century Telephone of Colorado, Inc.
Lumen continues to use the CenturyLink brand for its home and small business operations.