Windstream North Carolina was established in 1948 as the
Thermal Belt Telephone Company. It was founded to establish telephone service in
Polk County, North Carolina. In 1974, Thermal Belt Telephone absorbed the operations of Eastern Rowan Telephone, Mid-Carolina Telephone, and Mooresville Telephone. Following the merger, Thermal Belt Telephone became
Mid-Carolina Telephone Company. It also absorbed The Old Town Telephone System and North Carolina Telephone in 1977. In 1984, the company became
ALLTEL-Carolina, Inc. The name was later changed to remove the hyphen. In 2006, the company was sold to
Valor Telecom, which changed its name to
Windstream. It is a separate company from
Windstream Concord Telephone, which was acquired by
Windstream in 2007. ==References==