m NYNEX to Verizon - 2006: Verizon bought MCI, the second largest long-distance company CenturyLink: CenturyLink purchased EMBARQ in 2009 from Sprint, which at that time offered landline telephone service in the Kansas area and in the Midwest. www.TechnicalPDF.com 2011: CenturyLink purchased RBOC Quest Communications. Quest owned telephone service networks in 14 western states, which gave CenturyLink a presence in metropolitan as well as its existing rural locations. . 2017: CenturyLink purchased the rest of Level 3 Communications for its large interstate network. Prior to 2017, CenturyLink owned primarily local links connecting homes and businesses to interstate networks. AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink and Comcast- Recent Acquisitions AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink and Comcast are the largest telecommunications and cable TV providers in the United States. The list of their recent acquisitions in Tables 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, and 3-5 illustrate the increasing scope of their businesses. These acquisitions are aimed at providing software tools to manage their movie and TV content, and to give them skills for positioning themselves as a resource to enterprise customers. In addition to the acquisitions in Table 3-2, AT&T has purchased time Warner, a media company whose companies include Turner Broadcasting, HBO, CNN, CW, and Cinemax, plus many others including content in Latin America and Europe. Table 3-2 AT&T Mergers and Acquisitions Number of Wireline Subscribers Recent Acquisitions DirecTV-Satellite TV provider FiberTower-High-frequency spectrum Inclu Vyatta: Software platform with anti-virus and network load balancing software Carrier IQ: Diagnostic software embedded in milli smartphones Nextel Mexico: Wireless network in Mexico Otter Media: Streaming company that owns digital content including CrunchyRoll and Rooster Teeth. cribe www.TechnicalPDF.com Superclick: Analysis of statistics in Wi-Fi hotspots, and LAN Wi-Fi Invidi: Platform for advertising campaigns across TV, Satellite and Streaming TV Wayport: Wi-Fi hotspots in Uni