CenturyLink of Florida

Embarq Florida, Inc.

Company type	Private (Subsidiary of CenturyLink)
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1925
Products	Local Telephone Service
Parent	United Utilties/Sprint/Sprint Nextel (1925-2006) Embarq (2006-2009) CenturyLink (2009-present)
Website	http://www.centurylink.com/

Embarq Florida, Inc. is a telephone operating company providing local telephone services in Florida owned by CenturyLink.

The company was established in 1925, later changing its name to United Telephone Company of Florida upon expansion of the United Telephone System. It was owned by United Utilities.

United Utilities later became United Telecom, and acquired Sprint Long Distance from GTE. The company later became Sprint Corporation and United Telephone of Florida then became Sprint-Florida, Inc. It absorbed Central Telephone Company of Florida in 1996.

Sprint Corporation, in 2005, acquired Nextel and changed its name to Sprint Nextel Corporation. The company intended to spin-off its wireline assets into a separate company, which in 2006 occurred as Embarq Corporation. Sprint-Florida then became Embarq Florida, Inc.

Embarq was acquired by CenturyTel in 2009, which in 2010 changed its name to CenturyLink. Embarq Florida, at that point, began carrying on business under the CenturyLink name.

• CenturyLink Florida website (for former Embarq customers)