Regional telecommunications provider Ntelos Holdings continued to show strong customer reception to its service, posting customer growth across postpaid and prepaid segments.
Ntelos reported that it added 3,800 customers during the second quarter, including 3,600 subscribers to its prepaid service and 200 customers to postpaid...
Rural wireless operator Ntelos continued to buck the trend among many of its larger rivals in adding customers across its product offering and riding the general wireless industry wave of increased spending among customers.
The carrier said it added 11,400 net customers during the first...
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Regional wireless provider Ntelos posted robust quarterly results highlighted by strong growth in its postpaid business that translated into solid financial returns. The results were more impressive considering the struggles posted by a number of smaller carriers during the quarter, especially in terms of...
Regional wireless operator Ntelos is set to begin rolling out LTE services across its network during the second half of next year, and to have 70% of its potential customers covered by the end of 2014, according to an investor filing by the carrier....
With Apple touting the sale of 5 million iPhone 5 devices over its opening weekend, the hype surrounding the iconic device takes on a broader appearance this weekend as a number of regional players will begin offering the device starting Sept. 28.
Similar to the...
Rural carriers are increasingly lining up to offer Apple’s iPhone device as this morning Ntelos Wireless Cellcom Alaska-based General Communication said they would begin offering versions of the iconic smartphone on April 20. All three operators are also undercutting price points of larger rivals.
Ntelos,...
The Federal Communications Commission said it would adjust the deadline for filing comments on recent spectrum deals announced by Verizon Wireless, adding that the alignment is not an attempt to coordinate or link the consideration of those proposed deals.
The move followed petitions from a...
So far, despite massive lobbying over scheduled Nov. 4 votes on white spaces, wireless mergers, the universal service fund and intercarrier-compensation reforms, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has yet to blink. The FCC last night released the official agenda for the...
Small, rural and regional wireless carriers and trade groups said the Federal Communications Commission should not vote Nov. 4 on the Verizon Wireless-Alltel Communications L.L.C. merger before acting on unresolved roaming, spectrum concentration and handset exclusivity issues."Approving this merger without debating and addressing those...
Regional telecommunications provider Ntelos Holding Corp.'s reported a deal with Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade the company's wireless network with CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A equipment. The deal is valued at $88.2 million and includes Ntelos' network in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and North Carolina."We...
Regional telecommunications provider NTELOS Inc. announced plans for an overhaul to its advertising efforts, news that coincides with the company's hiring of new advertising firm The Johnson Group. NTELOS said the marketing firm will create new internal and external ad campaigns within the next...
Ntelos Holding Corp.'s net wireless customer additions in the first quarter were more than double what the carrier reported during the same quarter a year ago, and the firm also posted an all-time low for its postpaid churn rate. The telecom provider, which operates...
Regional telecommunications provider Ntelos Holdings Corp. said it added 9,773 wireless customers in the fourth quarter of 2006, an increase of 18 percent from the same period in 2005 and up 35 percent sequentially.The company, which provides wireless, wireline telephone and data services, said...
WAYNESBORO, Va.—Regional telecommunications operator Ntelos Holdings Corp. reported strong growth in the fourth quarter and full-year 2005, generating wireless operating revenues of $73 million during the final three months of 2005 and $280 million for the year. Ntelos Inc., the company’s prior incarnation, was...
Regional telecommunications provider Ntelos Holdings Corp. reported plans for an initial public offering of up to 15 million shares of common stock. If approved, the IPO could raise as much as $175 million for the company. According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing,...
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio-Sprint Corp. wireless affiliate Horizon PCS Inc. said it added 800 customers during the first quarter of this year, which included 2,400 net customer additions and 1,600 customers it sold to Sprint. The growth surpassed the loss of 3,700 customers the carrier posted...
WAYNESBORO, Va.-Ntelos Inc. announced the closing of its acquisition by Affiliate of Citigroup Venture Capital Partners and Quadrangle Capital Partners.The deal was for cash for all of Ntelos' outstanding equity by an entity formed by Citigroup Venture Capital Equity Partners, L.P. and Quadrangle Capital...
Rural telecommunications provider Ntelos Inc. said it has commenced a self-tender offer to repurchase up to 76 percent of its existing equity in relation to a previously announced agreement to be acquired by a pair of venture-capital firms.The self-tender offer calls for Ntelos to...
WAYNESBORO, Va.-Rural telecom and wireless services provider Ntelos Inc. said it has entered into an agreement with affiliates of Quadrangle Capital Partners L.P. and Citigroup Venture Capital that calls for the recapitalization and sale of Ntelos to Quadrangle and CVC. Published reports indicated a...
Rural telecommunications and wireless services provider Ntelos Inc. said it has entered into an agreement with affiliates of Quadrangle Capital Partners LP and Citigroup Venture Capital that calls for the recapitalization and sale of Ntelos to Quadrangle and CVC. Published reports indicated a total...
Rural telecommunications provider and Sprint PCS affiliate Ntelos Inc., which emerged from bankruptcy protection in late 2003 under the control of its creditors, is reportedly the target of a $750 million buyout by a pair of investment firms, Quadrangle Capital Partners and Citigroup Venture...
Verizon Wireless continued to accumulate spectrum Tuesday, announcing the purchase of licenses of 10 megahertz of spectrum in Pennsylvania for $15.15 million from Ntelos Inc.The agreement includes licenses for the Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading and York areas, which cover a population of 2.1 million people....
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Mobile applications provider Xpherix Corp. said its Remo, iPhonebook and iDatebook applications are now available to Western Wireless Corp.'s Cellular One subscribers, Cellular South customers and Ntelos Inc. subscribers. The Remo service allows wireless customers to access e-mail from seven different POP3...
