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Following the sale to CenturyTel and TelCove, KMC will now focus its resources on its successful wholesale business.Bedminster’s KMC Telecom Holdings, one of the nation’s largest private competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) and a leading provider of wholesale communications services nationwide, said Thursday it is selling its CLEC operations in all 37 markets to CenturyTel and TelCove in separate agreements. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.KMC said it will now focus its resources on its successful wholesale business. The company will deliver traditional and IP wholesale services to carriers and large enterprises, nationwide, over its new IP/MPLS network. KMC said CenturyTel, headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, and the nation’s eighth-largest local exchange telephone company, will acquire the CLEC operations in Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; Ann Arbor and Lansing, Michigan; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Corpus Christi and Longview, Texas; Eden Prairie, Minnesota; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Huntsville and Montgomery, Alabama; Madison, Wisconsin; Biloxi/Gulf Port, Mississippi; and, Topeka, Kansas. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based TelCove, a leading provider of business critical telecommunications services to enterprise companies and carriers throughout the eastern half of the U.S., will acquire operations in Augusta and Savannah, Georgia; Columbia, Charleston and Spartanburg, South Carolina; Daytona Beach, Ft. Myers, Greater Pinellas, Melbourne, Pensacola, Sarasota and Tallahassee, Florida; Fayetteville, Greensboro, Hickory, Wilmington and Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Hampton Roads and Roanoke, Virginia; Bethesda/Frederick/Rockville, Maryland; and, Bristol/Johnson City/Kingsport (Tri-Cities), Tennessee. The agreements are subject to regulatory review.