# Allegiance Telecom

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/allegiance-telecom/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Allegiance Telecom was a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) founded in 1997 and backed by Battery Ventures, providing local and long-distance voice, data, and internet services to business customers across major U.S. metropolitan markets. The company went public in 1998, expanded rapidly during the telecom boom, then filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2003; its network assets were acquired by XO Communications. Allegiance Telecom is defunct and operates no website, developer program, or public API surface today. This profile was surfaced from the Battery Ventures portfolio graph and is retained as an historical company record in the API Evangelist network. Enrichment found no live API artifacts to harvest.

## Kin Score — 0.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 0.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Telecommunications, CLEC, Voice, Networking, Defunct, Battery Ventures Portfolio

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/allegiance-telecom/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.