Western Wireless Corp. subsidiary Cellular One said it completed the expansion of its CDMA 1x network upgrades in Arkansas, Nevada and Texas following upgrades to its CDMA digital network in Kansas and Nebraska last year and upgrades to existing CDMA markets in Missouri, Montana,...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. subsidiary Cellular One said it has completed the expansion of its CDMA 1x network upgrades in Arkansas, Nevada and Texas to go along with upgrades to its CDMA digital network in Kansas and Nebraska last year and upgrades made to...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. network partner Edge Wireless L.L.C. said a federal court has placed an injunction prohibiting U.S. Cellular Corp. from marketing its recently launched Easyedge wireless data service in select Oregon, California and Idaho markets where Edge Wireless offers service, citing possible...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. closed on its previously announced $25 million acquisition of rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp.'s wireless business, which included two cellular and PCS licenses serving southern Minnesota.Western Wireless paid $12.9 million in cash and just over 1 million shares of HickoryTech...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. priced a public offering of 12 million shares of common stock that the carrier expects will generate $228 million. The carrier said it will use net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, to fund working capital requirements, for...
MANKATO, Minn.-Rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp., which announced last month plans to sell its wireless operations to Western Wireless Corp., reported a $25.9 million before tax and $15.3 million after tax writedown during the third quarter related to the pending sale. The writedown contributed...
Rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp. said it will sell its wireless business to Western Wireless Corp. for $25 million, including $12.8 million in cash and about 1 million HickoryTech shares held by Western Wireless.HickoryTech's wireless operations include cellular and PCS licenses covering 925,000 potential...
Rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp. signed a definitive agreement to sell its wireless business to Western Wireless Corp. for approximately $25 million, including $12.8 million in cash and approximately 1 million HickoryTech shares currently held by Western Wireless.HickoryTech's wireless operations include cellular and PCS...
MANKATO, Minn.-Rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp. reported $3.968 million in wireless revenues during the second quarter, which was a slight improvement compared with the $3.963 million the company reported for the second quarter of 2002. HickoryTech posted improved wireless revenues despite a drop in...
Wireless carriers have joined the millions of homeowners who are taking advantage of the country's economic slowdown and resulting low interest rates to reduce debt levels and refinance existing debt at interest rates not seen in decades. Since the beginning of June, a number...
MANKATO, Minn.-Rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp. reported $3.7 million in wireless revenues for the fourth quarter of last year, which was a decrease from the $4 million the company reported for the fourth quarter of 2001. For the year, wireless revenues dropped from $17.7...
MANKATO, Minn.-Rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp. reported $4.4 million in wireless revenues for the third quarter, a slight drop from the $4.5 million the company reported for the same quarter last year. A $100,000 increase in roaming revenues was offset by a $200,000 decrease...
MANKATO, Minn.-Kerrville, Texas-based Concho Cellular Telephone Co. Inc. signed a contract with HickoryTech Corp. to use its Write2k billing solution in its central Texas markets.Financial terms of the contract were not released.
MANKATO, Minn.—Rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp. appointed John Duffy to succeed Robert Alton, Jr., as president and chief executive officer of the company effective July 1. Alton announced his retirement in early April.Prior to joining HickoryTech, Duffy held a variety of executive positions at...
RESTON, Va.—Regional telecommunications provider HickoryTech selected Grayson Wireless' Geometrix wireless 911 caller location system for its wireless network.HickoryTech will initially deploy the network-based system in its Mankato, Minn., TDMA and AMPS network with plans to expand the deployment to other markets served by its...
MANKATO, Minn.—Rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp. reported $4 million in wireless service revenue for the fourth quarter of 2001, a slight drop from the $4.6 million reported during the previous year. Wireless revenues were helped by an increase in average revenue per user from...
DENVER-Daniels & Associates announced U.S. Cellular Corp. acquired the E-Block personal communications services licenses serving the St. Joseph, Mo., basic trading area from Triad Holdings I L.L.C. covering approximately 190,000 potential customers.In addition, Telecorp Wireless Inc. acquired the E-Block PCS license covering the Cedar...
Telecommunications provider McLeodUSA Inc. sold two of its personal communications services licenses and entered into agreements to sell the remainder of its PCS licenses to four buyers for more than $100 million. The buyers include U.S. Cellular Corp., TeleCorp PCS, HickoryTech Corp. and Midwest...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. has taken a stake in Minnesota operator HickoryTech Corp., according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.The rural carrier bought 936,110 shares, or 6.78 percent, of HickoryTech's outstanding common stock, spending $13.8 million in working capital.In its filings, Western said it...
