Between 19, Clarke gradually moved his headquarters from Marion to Monroe, Louisiana, to access the larger employee base and to be near the airport.

Williams served as president and chairman of the board. That year, the company was incorporated as Central Telephone and Electronics. 1967–1999 īy 1967, Oak Ridge Telephone Company served three states with 10,000 access lines. The company remained as a family-operated business until it became incorporated in 1968. Lumen still maintains offices in the former headquarters building. With a loan from business associate Joe Sydney Carter, Clarke purchased the Marion Telephone Company and eventually made it his base of operation as he grew his company through more acquisitions. In 1947, Clarke Williams learned the telephone company in Marion, Louisiana was for sale. In 1946, the Williams' son, Clarke McRae Williams, received ownership of the family's telephone company as a wedding gift. They moved the switchboard to the Williams family front parlor. In 1930, Hogan sold the company, with 75 paid subscribers, to William Clarke and Marie Williams, for $500. The earliest predecessor of Lumen was the Oak Ridge Telephone Company in Oak Ridge, Louisiana, which was owned by F. Lumen also serves global enterprise customers across North America, Latin America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), and Asia Pacific. Its communications services include local and long-distance voice, broadband, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), private line (including special access), Ethernet, hosting (including cloud hosting and managed hosting), data integration, video, network, public access, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), information technology, and other ancillary services.

The company is a member of the Fortune 500 and the S&P 500 index until 2023. (formerly CenturyLink) is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services.

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