TW Telecom (styled tw telecom), was a business telecommunications company headquartered in Littleton, Colorado, United States. The company provided business voice services, transport, Internet, data services and wholesale fiber capacity. It was an early leader in the deployment of Ethernet for metropolitan areas, dubbed Metro Ethernet. The company was acquired by Level 3 Communications on November 1, 2014.[1] Exactly three years later, CenturyLink (now Lumen Technologies) acquired Level 3 Communications.[2]
History
Founded in 1993 as Time Warner Communications, the company was a joint venture between US West and Time Warner Cable, a division of Time Warner Entertainment, to deliver data and telecommunication services over a hybrid fiber and coaxial network. The company was successful in their efforts, but at the time the cost to build fiber directly to consumer's homes proved too expensive to be profitable.