McLeodUSA telecommunication service is a major provider of integrated telecommunications services to businesses and residential customers in 12 Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states. It is one of the nation’s fastest-growing telecommunications companies. The core business of McLeodUSA is to provide integrated communications services including local, long distance, voice mail, paging, and Internet access services, all from a single company on a single bill, tailored to the customer's needs. Its business is primarily focused on midsized business and residential customers. It operates local access lines in 25 states in the western and Midwestern US and offers wireless voice through AT&T Mobility (formerly Cingular Wireless). The company derives its revenues from the sale of telecommunications services, the sale of advertising space in telephone directories, and telemarketing sales. McLeodUSA Publishing prints and distributes nearly 24 million telephone directories in 22 states. McLeodUSA Telecommunications Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of McLeodUSA Incorporated.


Company’s mission is to become the number one provider and most admired company in the communities they serve. The principal elements of the Company's business strategy include: Providing integrated telecommunications service; Building market share through branding and customer service; expanding our fiber optic network; and, migrating existing customers to our own network.

McLeodUSA was formed as a part of deregulation of telecommunication industry. McLeodUSA was founded in 1991 by Clark McLeod. Before starting the company Clark McLeod sold his previous. In the early 1980’s there was monopoly in the industry and the infrastructure was not able to handle high-speed traffic. McLeod's Telecom USA had reaped the benefits of deregulation in that market. McLeod became interested in trying the local phone market, planning to create a 'super-regional' phone company offering local, long distance, paging, and Internet access on one bill. He was aware of consumer demand for a broader scope of high-capacity telecommunications at a lower cost. Legislators, regulators, and consumers were demanding that the industry be opened up to more competition, and McLeod anticipated sizeable opportunities for the future.

In 1992 the company began providing fiber optic maintenance services for the Iowa Communications network. In 1993 McLeod Telecommunications, Inc. was reincorporated as McLeod, Inc. The company began offering local and long distance services to Iowa and Illinois businesses in 1994. McLeod planned to concentrate on second- and third-tier cities in Midwestern and Rocky Mountain areas because there was no competition in that market. McLeod began his assault on two entrenched regional Bells: U S West and Ameritech. McLeod launched its Prime Line service, its first bundled telephony product for residential customers, and completed its initial public offering in 1996. The federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted during this period. It pushed for deregulation and increased competition among local providers. McLeod worked to assemble an executive management team with decades of experience in telecommunications, while establishing a network to support the enhanced services it wished to provide. Following the construction of its own network, McLeod served customers without leasing capacity from U S West Communications and other carriers, selling its own network capacity to other telecommunications providers.

City:	Rock Island
State:	Illinois
Zip Code:	61204
County:	Rock Island
County Population:	147808
Time Zone:	Central

Type:	Landline
Date of registration:	10/05/1999
Time:	09/16/2010 08:47:00 AM
Rate Center:	Rockisland
Switch CLLI:	DVNPIAEQDS0
OCN:	19340