VISTA-UNITED TELECOMMUNICATIONS

'Vista-United Telecommunications' was the telecommunications company owned by The Walt Disney Company to service all Disney resorts in Florida and Disney-planned communities such as Celebration, Florida.
Disney created Vista-United as an Limited Liability Company. The company was created to manage the new telephone and data communications for Walt Disney World. Vista-United was the first company to use underground cabling, the first to use fiber optic cable to provide service to customers, and the first company in Florida to activate 9-1-1 emergency dialing. ^[1]
Vista-United was in-fact an independent telephone company for Walt Disney World, however the company was created through a partnership between Vista Communications, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company and United Telephone Company of Florida, which later became a part of Sprint. ^[2]
In 2001 telephone company Smart City Telecom, LLC purchased Vista-United and created an agreement with Disney to ensure telecommunications service for the resort over a long period of time.^{[3] [4]}

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1. Mouse Planet – History of the World, Part V – Transforming the Land
2. http://www.smartcity.com/about/presskits/pkit_company.asp
3. http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID10004010.asp
4. http://www.uscablegroup.com/news_4_09_01.htm