northstate.net one of the nation's largest integrated communications companies
About northstate.net
North State traces its beginnings to the establishment of the High Point Telephone Exchange in High Point, N.C. by local businessmen in 1895. In 1899, J.F. Hayden, an inventor and visionary who had earlier pioneered the first telephone system in neighboring Thomasville, N.C., purchased the High Point company and rapidly began expanding both systems.
In 1905, Hayden incorporated the High Point based company and changed the name to North State Telephone Company. In 1919, Hayden purchased the competing Southern Bell system in High Point that had been operating in the city since 1907. In 1920 North State earned broad recognition when it became the first telephone company in the state to install the automatic-dial system.
In 1929 the company purchased the Randleman telephone system, and in 1935 the Thomasville company was merged into North State. The remaining history is a story of constant growth in customers, services and marked advances in technology.
Today, continuing with its headquarters in High Point, N.C., North State is one of the nation's 20 largest integrated communications companies, offering wireless, broadband Internet, voice services, directory advertising, data and IP-based business services and digital television services in the Piedmont Triad Region of North Carolina.
