fate merged successor qwest founded 1895 defunct 2009 headquarters ontario oregon united states products local telephone service parent rocky mountain bell 1899 1911 mst & t uswc qc 1911 2009 website www.malheurbell.net malheur home telephone company commonly known as malheur bell was a rural telephone company operating in oregon . it was a wholly owned subsidiary of qwest corporation the bell operating company of qwest communications international . history edit it was founded in 1895 to serve malheur county oregon then located in sunset telephone and telegraph territory . a controlling interest was purchased by rocky mountain bell telephone company in 1899 in exchange for malheur s purchase of the toll line rocky mountain bell laid to connect malheur to the rest of the telephone network . it continued to remain an independent operation of the mountain states telephone and telegraph company formed when rocky mountain bell merged with several other telephone companies throughout the rocky mountain region . malheur bell was located in a state served by pacific telephone & telegraph . by 1984 mountain bell had acquired 100 % of the company s stock and malheur continued to operate independently of mountain bell . at this point it was located within pacific northwest bell territory split from pacific telephone in the 1960s . pnb became a sister bell operating company of mountain bell under us west ownership in 1984 . in 1991 us west merged its operating companies into mountain bell renamed us west communications ; however malheur bell remained independent of the rest of us west operations and continued to use the bell trademark . in 2000 us west was acquired by qwest and us west communications was renamed qwest corporation . malheur bell however continued to operate independently of its parent until its operations were fully integrated in quest corporation on december 14 2009 . malheur bell was the last remaining company formerly part of the bell system that continued to use the bell logo in its official corporate logo . see also edit qwest qwest corporation centurylink external links edit the associated press 19 september 2009 . eastern oregon s malheur bell will merge with qwest . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title malheur bell & oldid 743489280 categories centurylinkcompanies disestablished in 2009malheur county oregoncompanies based in oregoncommunications in oregon1895 establishments in oregondefunct telecommunications companies of the united statesamerican companies established in 1895telecommunications companies established in 1895hidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 22 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view