Frontier Communications of the Southwest Inc. is a Frontier Communications operating company providing local telephone services to former Verizon California territory in Arizona, California, and Nevada.
The company was created as a subsidiary of New Communications ILEC Holdings by Verizon in 2009 and sold on July 1, 2010, to Frontier.
The predecessors of Frontier Communications of the Southwest were two rural telephone companies.
[1] Another predecessor was United Farmers Telephone of Gardnerville, Nevada.
United Farmers Telephone merged with Interstate Telegraph in 1949.