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Rural Cellular

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Rural Cellular
Company typeDefunct
IndustryCellular Communications
Founded1990
SuccessorVerizon Wireless
HeadquartersAlexandria, Minnesota, United States
Key people
Richard Eckstrand(CEO, President, & Director)
ProductsCellular Telephone Service
Revenue125.7 Million in Q3 of 2003
Number of employees
1,001
Websitehttps://web.archive.org/web/*/unicel.com

Rural Cellular was a telecommunications company that had run the Unicel mobile network. It operated in Midwest, Northeast, Northwest and the Southern regions of the United States and was bought by Verizon Wireless on January 25, 2009, for approximately $2.67 billion in cash and assumed debt.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ "Verizon Wireless To Acquire Rural Cellular Corporation, Expand The Nation's Most Reliable Wireless Network". Verizon. 2007-07-30. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  2. ^ "Rural Cellular Corporation: Private Company Information". Bloomberg. 2017-04-20. Archived from the original on 2017-04-20. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
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