I am responding to your article that appeared in the June 3 edition, "On-network calling plans satisfy carriers, customers," by Dan Meyer. Your description of the Rural Cellular Corp. roaming increase cited in the article did not clearly represent actual events that occurred between...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.—Rural Cellular Corp. reported $106.5 million in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2001, compared with $99.5 million during the same quarter of 2000. For the year, Rural Cellular posted $441.1 million in revenue for 2001, compared with $356 million the previous year.Net...
RESTON, Va.—Openet Telecom announced that its recently unveiled FusionWorks wireless convergent mediation platform will be deployed by Rural Cellular Corp. to enable it to offer advanced 2.5G and 3G-related services in the future."Service providers large and small are facing similar issues—high operating expenses due...
DENVER—Country Road Communications Inc. announced one of its affiliates has acquired some assets of Rural Cellular Corp., including the Saco river ILEC, IXC and ISP operation, which serve 10,800 access lines in southern Maine.Denver-based Daniels & Associates represented Rural Cellular Corp. in the acquisition.
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Foundation, the charitable arm of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, has expanded its successful Donate-A-Phone program so that carriers and other wireless retailers may donate $2 to the charity of their choice for every phone they recycle."It is a way to...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association announced election results for the 2001-2002 board of directors and executive committee.Rick Ekstrand of Rural Cellular Corp. will serve as chairman, Tim Donahue of Nextel Communications Inc. was voted vice chairman, Mohan Gyani of AT&T Wireless will be...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless signed an agreement with Rural Cellular Corp. Minnesota Inc. to acquire a 10 MHz personal communications services license covering the southern Oregon Basic Trading Areas of Medford-Grants Pass, Roseburg, Bend and Klamath Falls. Financial terms of the deal were not released.Verizon...
A long list of investors led by J.P. Morgan Capital Corp., FirstCall Telephone Corp. and the management team from former operator Triton Cellular Partners have formed a new wireless carrier.BGV PCS Acquisition Co. L.L.C. has acquired PCS licenses in Chicago and Cincinnati from Verizon...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest cellular carriers in the United States. Company rankings are based on the total number of subscribers for their majority-held or controlled markets. All subscriber numbers reflect year-end 1999 figures reported by each company.Triton Cellular Partners...
Rural cellular carriers have been reaping generous roaming revenues from nationwide operators since the advent of one-rate plans, but investors in recent weeks have been concerned that this trend is slowing.Rural cellular stocks, which recorded spectacular gains in 1999, have taken a hit since...
More than 660,000 U.S. and Canadian customers subscribed to GSM wireless service in the second quarter of 1999, according to the North American GSM Alliance. This brings the total number of GSM customers in North America to 4.2 million.CanadaBell Canada announced plans to purchase...
The industry has seen AT&T Wireless Services Inc. pick up smaller cellular carriers in order to fill in gaps and avoid paying high roaming fees, and Vodafone AirTouch plc's acquisition of rural cellular carrier CommNet Cellular Inc. indicates other carriers are feeling the roaming-fee...
Intelligent roaming is guaranteed to change the face of the wireless industry, and smaller carriers that have built their businesses on making money from roaming better pay attention, say experts."Intelligent roaming opens up competition, and will require carriers to work hard for roaming minutes,"...
Rural Cellular Corp. Rural Cellular's revenues increased 103 percent to $34 million from $16.8 million during last year's third quarter. Net loss for the quarter totaled $4.5 million, or 50 cents per share, compared with net income of $621,000, or 7 cents per share,...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service has assigned a speculative grade rating of B2 to a proposed $1.21 billion in secured credit facilities that will be used to fund Centennial Cellular Corp.'s buyout and recapitalization by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and Blackstone Capital Partners.The new...
If your customer was also your neighbor, or someone you ran into often, it might change the way you treat them. That is the reason some rural cellular carriers say their customer service is better than their larger counterparts."To a larger carrier, customers are...
Four of the larger SMR (Specialized Mobile Radio) operators in the United States have merged to create what should be the nation's largest 220 MHz SMR provider. The combination of Incom Communications Corp., US MobilComm, SMR Advisory Group L.C. and Narrowband Network Systems would...
WASHINGTON-Kari-Pekka "K-P" Wilska of Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. and Richard Ekstrand of Rural Cellular Corp. have been elected to the board of directors of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Foundation for Wireless Telecommunications. They assume their new positions immediately.Wilska, president of Nokia Mobile Phones,...
It's always uneasy when a new group of people in power take over, whether it's at the local city council, Congress or the Federal Communications Commission. Certainly the people in the new position are more aware of that uncomfortableness than anyone. So while the...
Editor's note: Following are five charts ranking major telecommunications carriers according to revenues, net income, percentage change in revenue from 1995 to 1996, percentage change in net income from 1995 to 1996 and two-year total return on investment to shareholders.Nordby International Inc. of Boulder, Colo.,...
WESTLAKE, Texas-Nokia Corp. agreed to supply Global System for Mobile communications personal communications services network equipment to Wireless Alliance L.L.C. Nokia values the contract at $20 million.During the initial phase of the contract, Nokia will supply GSM-1900 base station controllers and high-capacity indoor base...
