Frontier Telephone of Rochester

Frontier Telephone of Rochester, Inc., formerly Rochester Telephone Corporation, is a local telephone operating company of Frontier Communications providing telephone service to Rochester, New York. It was founded in 1920 to consolidate local phone operations in the Rochester area, and was notable as being an independent telephone company during the peak of the Bell System's near monopoly of phone service in the United States. The company changed its name to Frontier in 1994. It was acquired by Global Crossing in 1999, which then sold it to Citizens Communications in 2001. Citizens took the Frontier name in 2008, becoming Frontier Communications.