Its most recent expansion has come by way of yet another telecom acquisition of Iowa Telecom for $ 1.1 billion.

Windstream has fortified its markets with strategic acquisitions like Lexcom in September this year, NuVox in November, CT Communications in 2007 and D & E Communications in 2009. 

Acquiring Iowa Telecom gives Windstream inroads into the markets in the upper Midwest USA. Iowa Telecom is based out of Newton, Iowa and is the second largest local telephone company. Established in 2000, Iowa Telecom came into being after acquiring the Iowa operations of GTE Midwest Incorporated. They have more than 243,000 access lines in service and around 290 telephone exchanges.

This means that Windstream now has ingress to more than 100,000 commercial and home based customers in Iowa and Minnesota.
NuVox Inc, based in Greenville, gave Windstream 90,000 more customers and markets across Southeast and Midwest in a $ 643 million deal. Lexcom Inc is a Lexington based company and in a $ 141 million acquisition gave Windstream 23,000 new access lines, 12,000 cable TV customers and 9,000 high-speed internet users. It also expanded their North Carolina presence. The CT Communications $ 585 million deal furthered Windstream’s presence here by adding on 158,000 access lines and 29,000 broadband customers. The acquisition of D & E Communications, based in Ephrata, Pennsylvania was closed this month in a $ 330-million deal. This deal gives Windstream an additional 165,000 access lines and 44,000 high speed internet customers in Pennsylvania.

As the CEO of Windstream, Jeff Gardner averred about the acquisitions, “....they are well run profitable” businesses and Windstream now has expanded presence.

All these deals have put Windstream into the markets in New Mexico, North East, Mid West and Southern States.