Although the directories are distributed for free, income is derived from more than 400,000 local businesses and 4,000 national advertising accounts. Dex distributes the directories in 14 states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
is the official publisher of telephone directory white pages and yellow pages for Qwest Communications. NAIC: 511140 Directory and Mailing List Publishersĭex Media, Inc. Additionally, the domain is still active and rolls over to the CenturyLink webpage.Sales: $1.63 billion (2003, includes West Predecessor revenue)
Dex Media white pages lists a customer service number under the Northwestern Bell name (which connects to Qwest). The Northwestern Bell name is still licensed for use today on telephone equipment produced by Unical Enterprises otherwise, the NWBT name has disappeared. The Northwestern Bell headquarters, now the AT&T Building (owned by CenturyLink), was located at 118 South 19th Street in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1976, Northwestern Bell sold access lines in the Midland, Philip, Martin, White River, Milesville, and Hayes exchanges to Golden West Telephone, a small telephone cooperative in South Dakota. While the new company was incorporated in Iowa, its headquarters remained in Omaha. In January, 1921, the Nebraska and Northwestern Telephone Exchange companies were merged into the new company. On December 10, 1920, Iowa Telephone changed its name to Northwestern Bell Telephone Company. In 1909, a single general office staff for the Iowa, Nebraska and Exchange companies was established in Omaha. Things became less confusing when the Tri-State and Dakota Central companies were folded into the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company. One problem with this arrangement, especially for local telephone staffers and historians, is that the carbons of Yost's letters contain no letterheads. In a letter to AT&T, Yost explained that when he was answering a question, making a proposal or discussing a problem in his correspondence with AT&T, he would use the letterhead of the particular company to which the question, problem or proposal related. It was a confusing arrangement to regulators, employees and even to the parent company, AT&T. Yost served as the president of all the companies. Telephone companies in the Northwestern Bell Group included the Tri-State Telephone Company, the Dakota Central Telephone Company, the Iowa Telephone Company, the Nebraska Telephone Company and the Northwestern Telephone Exchange.Ĭasper E. Building Northwestern Bell Northwestern Bell logo, 1984-1988 On July 11, 1939, Northwestern Bell Telephone established dial service in Fargo, North Dakota. When the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company was organized, it had authorized capital stock of $10,000. This exchange was the forerunner of the Bell-licensed Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company which was incorporated on December 10, 1878. In the fall of 1878, the Northwestern Telephone Company opened an "experimental" exchange in Minneapolis-located in City Hall, it served the city government as well as the Nicollet Hotel and Pillsbury Mills*. On November 10, 1879, Western Union settled a Bell patent infringement suit by getting completely out of the phone business and selling all of its exchanges, including the Keokuk exchange, to the Bell Company. Using superior equipment designed by Thomas Edison and Elisha Gray, Western Union was in a competitive shoot-out with local licensee of the National Bell Telephone Company in Boston. The earliest documented telephone exchange in Northwestern Bell territory was opened by the Western Union Company in Keokuk, Iowa, on September 1, 1878. Hayes could use his phone in a little wooden booth outside of his office in the White House. A Bell-licensed exchange is believed to have opened in Deadwood, South Dakota, between March and August 1878, just two years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and several months before President Rutherford B. The earliest record of telephones in the Northwestern Bell service area was a two-telephone intercom circuit used by a Little Falls, Minnesota, druggist and his clerk in 1876. It has never been definitively established where Northwestern Bell's earliest roots lie. History Early beginnings 1897 map of service area Northwestern Bell Telephone Company served the states of the upper Midwest opposite the Southwestern Bell area, including Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska.
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