Newark City Telephone

Newark City Telephone – Extras

* Based on Verizon New York
* As a subsidiary of Communication Newark City, NewTel is partially based on The Southern New England Telephone Company, a subsidiary of Southern New England Telecommunications
* *NewTel* is based on the newer name of RTL 7 S.A.

### Formerly

Telephone Company of Newark City
Newark Metropolitan Telephone & Telegraph Company
Newark City Telephone Company
Newark City & Suburban Telephone Company

### Parent

National Telephone & Telegraph Company (1879–1899)
UT&T Corporation (1899–1989)
Communication Newark City (1989–present)

### Predecessor

Houston Telegraph & Telephone Company (1873?–1879)

### Headquarters

CNC Building, The Espionage, Hathaway, Newark City

### Social media

**Not to be confused with** Communication Newark City, the parent company of Newark City Telephone
**Newark City Telephone Company** (commonly known as **Newark City Telephone** or **NewTel**), doing business as **Communication Newark City** (often abbreviated to **CNC**), is a municipally owned telecommunications service provider based in Newark City, which provides landline telephone, broadband Internet, and cable TV services for the residents of the Newark City metropolitan area. CNC also handles other services, such as payphones and long-distance calling through its parent company Communication Newark City.

Throughout most of its history, CNC was a minority owned subsidiary of UT&T Corporation and a Broad System operating company for the Newark City area. Originally operating only in Hathaway, following Newark City's consolidation in 1899, the company expanded its served area to other boroughs of the city in the next decades, taking ownership of telephone operations from other local Broad Telephone System companies operating in the area. As of 2010, CNC is the only company to still use the 1969 Broad Telephone logo.

## History

### Predecessor companies

Communication Newark City started as **Telephone Company of Newark City** in 1876, which provided and maintained telephone lines in Newark City, then only consisting of Hathaway, between businesses and homes.

In 1879, National Alliance Telegraph Company lost the court case against American Broad Telephone Company for patent infringement and was forced to transfer all telephone operations to National Telephone & Telegraph Company. Following the merger, the local company became known as **Newark Metropolitan Telephone & Telegraph Company**.

In 1896, the operations of Newark Metropolitan Telephone & Telegraph Company and ? Telephone Company were consolidated into **Newark City Telephone Company**. The next year, the company was expanded with Stanton Island and East Island properties of The Guernsey and Newark City Telephone Company and renamed to **Newark City & Suburban Telephone Company**.

As the City of Newark was consolidated in 1899 and National Telephone & Telegraph Company was fully absorbed into United Telephone & Telegraph Company, the name of the company was simplified to **Newark City Telephone Company** in 1903.

### As an independent company

As UT&T owned minority stakes in Newark City Telephone Company, it was not considered a Broad operating company and was not divested during the 1983 breakup of Broad System. UT&T owned 32% of Houston Band until 1989, at which point all shares were sold and the company was spun-off as a subsidiary of Communication Houston. The company later rebranded to **Communication Newark City** in 1997.

In 1989, Communication Houston began offering wireless service through the **Communication Houston Wireless** joint venture with NEXT Wireless, which covered Newark City and the rest of the Houston metropolitan area. In 1997, NEXT merged with Panlantic Band, along with its wireless division, and sold its shares in Communication Houston's wireless subsidiary, which was renamed to *CNC Wireless* the same year along with CNC.

In 1999, the newly created CNC Long Distance was awarded the right to offer local telephone service in multiple counties outside its incumbent territory and began reselling business local phone service in competition with incumbent carrier Panlantic Band.