Use the current bill, account notice and provider’s exact-address answer to identify the company serving your home. Rebrands, asset sales, parent acquisitions and wholesale joint ventures mean different things. A shared name or owner does not prove a second independent connection, a fiber upgrade or a completed household migration.
This lookup covers 13 selected sourced relationships. Read event scope and status before applying an old name to a current account.
13 relationships
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Names to recognize: NorthState · North State · Lumos Networks
A unified brand does not establish a fiber upgrade or current retail account migration.
Lumos: NorthState and Lumos Networks unify the brand, August 15, 2022 [1]
Names to recognize: Lumos · NorthState · North State · T-Mobile Fiber
The JV owns infrastructure relationships; T-Mobile supplies the described retail relationship. Do not treat every legacy account as having completed migration.
Names to recognize: Metronet · MetroNet · T-Mobile Fiber · KKR
T-Mobile’s annual filing reports the completed joint acquisition and its residential customer relationship. Confirm the current bill and account notices, not just the parent name.
T-Mobile 2025 Form 10-K: July 24, 2025 Metronet joint acquisition [3]
Names to recognize: CenturyLink · Lumen · Quantum Fiber · Brightspeed
Check which service and account transferred. A Brightspeed bill does not by itself establish fiber.
Brightspeed: acquired Lumen operations launch, October 3, 2022 (PDF) [4] · Brightspeed: transferred CenturyLink and Quantum Fiber accounts [5]
Names to recognize: Lumen · CenturyLink · Quantum Fiber · AT&T · Forged Fiber 37
The older “Quantum remains with Lumen in the West” shortcut is incomplete. Confirm the current customer account and brand transition at the actual home.
Lumen: consumer FTTH/Quantum Fiber sale to AT&T completed February 2, 2026 [6]
Names to recognize: AT&T · Forged Fiber 37 · Gigapower · GIP · CPP Investments
AT&T expects closing in the first half of 2027. This announcement is not evidence that the new JV has already closed or that an address is served.
AT&T: Forged Fiber 37/Gigapower joint venture announced October 6, 2026; expected 2027 closing [7]
Names to recognize: Windstream · Kinetic · Kinetic by Windstream
The consumer name does not identify the physical last mile or upload tier.
Names to recognize: Time Warner Cable · TWC · Bright House Networks · Charter · Spectrum
A brand lineage does not imply a universal cable upload ceiling or a separate line under each old name.
Charter: Spectrum and Time Warner Cable corporate history [9]
Names to recognize: Frontier Northwest · Frontier · Ziply Fiber
This regional sale is distinct from the later Verizon acquisition of Frontier. Do not map all Frontier accounts nationwide to Ziply.
Ziply: Northwest Frontier acquisition completed May 1, 2020 [10]
Names to recognize: Ziply Fiber · Ziply · BCE · Bell Canada
BCE completed the acquisition. Parent ownership does not itself rename each account or describe an individual home’s network.
Names to recognize: Frontier Communications · Frontier Fiber · Frontier · Verizon
A completed corporate acquisition is not proof that every Frontier line has become Fios or that a new physical network was installed.
Verizon: Frontier welcomed as a Verizon company, January 20, 2026 [12]
Names to recognize: RCN · Grande Communications · Wave Broadband · enTouch · Digital West · Astound
The unified brand does not identify every home’s line technology. Sparklight is a separate brand relationship.
Astound: RCN, Grande, Wave, enTouch and Digital West unified brand [13]
Names to recognize: Cable One · Cable ONE · Sparklight
This rebrand does not merge Sparklight with Astound or establish a fiber upgrade.
Cable One: consumer products rebranded Sparklight in 2019 [14]
No matching relationships in this curated set. Clear search or use the provider’s current account and official disclosures.
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Contact usNot necessarily. Ownership, retail branding, wholesale arrangements and the installed connection are separate questions. Use the account notice, product and provider’s confirmation for the exact home.
No. The 2020 Northwest sale to Ziply and the 2026 Verizon acquisition of Frontier are distinct events. Neither corporate event establishes that every individual home has changed retail brand or received a new fiber line.
An announcement or expected closing date does not establish a completed transaction. The lookup explicitly marks proposed events as announced. Check a closing disclosure and the provider’s current account notice.
No. It covers the selected sourced relationships shown here. It does not identify every provider, household, network route or migration status. Check exact-address service separately.
Primary corporate and regulatory disclosures support the dated events shown here. A historical transaction is not a present address qualification, plan quote or proof that every account has migrated. Links open external websites with their own terms and data practices.
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