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North State is a telecommunications company headquartered in High Point, North Carolina, offering landline and cellular telephone, residential and business optical fiber services, web hosting, yellow pages, and digital television to a area that includes High Point, Thomasville, Archdale, Randleman, Jamestown, Trinity and parts of Greensboro and Kernersville. North State ranks as one of the top 20 telecommunications companies in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Facts about NSC )〕 ==History== In 1895, local businessmen started the High Point Telephone Exchange in High Point, N.C. In 1899, J.F. Hayden, who started a telephone system in Thomasville, bought the High Point company; both companies grew quickly. In 1905, the High Point company was incorporated as North State Telephone Company. In 1919, Hayden bought the Southern Bell system in High Point, which had operated since 1907. In 1920 North State became the first telephone company in the state to install the automatic-dial system. In 1929 the company bought the Randleman system, and in 1935 the Thomasville company became part of North State.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About North State Communications )〕 In 2004, North State began offering DirecTV digital satellite TV. In 2005, North State spent $30 million to begin offering the area's first fiber optic residential service. In 2007, North State's cell phone service changed from Cingular to AT&T.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cingular Wireless from North State Is Now AT&T wireless from North State )〕 Also in 2007, the company began offering 3G service.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Area Wireless Connections Pick Up Speed )〕 The company added fiber optic service in new areas to its as it began offering the new TV service during summer 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North State Communications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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