Rural Cellular Corp.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

RANK/COMPANY NET INCOME (000’s) 1 AT&T Corp. $5,608,000 2 British Telecom $3,034,000 3 BellSouth Corp. $2,863,000 4 GTE Corp. $2,798,000 5 Ameritech Corp. $2,134,000 6 SBC Communications Inc. $2,101,000 7 …

Rank/Company % Change 1996 1995 Net Income Net Income (000) Net Income (000) 1 Palmer Wireless Inc. 390.78% $4,682 $954 2 Rural Cellular Corp. 340.13% $3,477 $790 3 BellSouth Corp. …

% CHANGE 1996 1995 RANK/COMPANY ’95 TO ’96 REVENUE (000’s) REVENUE (000’s) 1 Associated Group Inc. 368.98% $20,035 $4,272 2 Teletouch Communications Inc. 265.75% $31,725 $8,674 3 PriCellular Corp. 171.34% …

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 …

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 …

AirTouch Cellular launched Caller ID service in the Puget Sound area of western Washington. The service is available using Motorola Inc., Audiovox Corp. and Nokia Corp. narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone …

InterCel completes Maine sub. sale InterCel Inc. completed the sale of its Maine cellular subsidiary last week for the purchase price of about $77 million. InterCel said it will use …

Cellemetry Data Service has signed eight new contracts since it was launched almost a year ago, and now provides total coverage to 125 million pops in North America. The service …

Judging from information provided in Form 175s submitted prior to the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licenses, small rural telephone companies-backed by established …

Alexandria, Minn.-based Rural Cellular Corp. said it plans to offer personal communications services and cellular service to customers in portions of Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin through a joint venture …