Z-Tel Communications, Inc. was founded in the wake of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The establishment of the Unbundled Network Element-Platform (UNE-P) enabled competitive telecommunications companies to provide telephone service to end-users over incumbent local telephone service provider networks for the first time.
With the promise of UNE-P before them, telecom industry veterans Gregg Smith and James Kitchen envisioned a new kind of integrated, affordable communications service. In January 1998, they founded Z-Tel Communications, Inc., a unique communications provider focused on bringing the power of the Internet to traditional telephone service.
Z-Tel's flagship residential service, Z-LineHOME™, bundles local and long distance telephone service with popular calling features and proprietary features such as Find Me, a multiple-number call forwarding feature.
Z-tels groundbreaking business telephone service, Z-LineBUSINESS™, provides local and long distance telephone service, popular calling features, plus a host of enhanced communications features designed specifically for the needs of today's business.
Z-Tel was the first national local telephone service provider in the U.S. They offer service to residential and business customers in most states, and cover a larger geographic area than any regional Bell company.
