The past year was a big one for telecom M&A. Telecompetitor covered more than two dozen mergers and acquisitions in 2016 and they involved numerous facets of the industry. Here’s a summary of key trends and how they are reshaping…
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Shentel Completes nTelos Acquisition
Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) today announced it has completed its acquisition of nTelos Holdings Corporation (nTelos), a provider of wireless communications services in portions of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Shentel is a local company…
Should Smaller Wireless Carriers Sell Towers?
At least one nationwide wireless carrier, T-Mobile, has sold some of its wireless towers in order to free up money for investment– and other large carriers reportedly are considering that option. Does this move make sense for smaller carriers as…
Sprint Rural Plans Gain Momentum with nTelos LTE Expansion
Sprint’s rural LTE plans are gaining momentum, as an announcement today from Alcatel-Lucent illustrates. Earlier this year, nTelos said it would expand its LTE network in West Virginia and western Virginia to specifications aligned with Sprint’s own network modernization program….
Dish/nTelos Broadband Wireless Priced at $29.99 Monthly
As planned, Dish Network and regional wireless carrier nTelos said today that they have commercially launched their fixed wireless Internet service in five Virginia markets. The service will support download speeds up to 10 Mbps and will sell for a…
nTelos Fixed Wireless Expansion Planned, Extending Dish Agreement
nTelos is gearing up to expand the fixed broadband wireless trials it has been conducting with Dish Network. On the company’s earnings call last week, CEO James Hyde said nTelos plans to expand coverage to an additional population of nearly…
DISH Expands 4G LTE Fixed Wireless Broadband Trials, Now With Sprint
We’re getting some possible indications of DISH intentions for wireless services from news today that they will partner with Sprint for a 4G LTE fixed wireless trial in Corpus Christi, Texas. The move follows a similar partnership effort for DISH with…
nTelos CEO Details Broadband Wireless Plans with Dish
Dish Network and nTelos believe they can support fixed wireless broadband rates of at least 5 Mbps per customer for the rollout they are planning for rural parts of Virginia, said nTelos CEO and President Jim Hyde at the Wells…
DISH and nTelos Expand Fixed Wireless Broadband Partnership
DISH and nTelos must like what they see with a fixed wireless trial using LTE, which was first announced in May of this year. Today, both companies announced an expansion of the pilot project that they hope will eventually reach…
Is Dish/nTelos Fixed Wireless Demo Aimed at Clearwire/Sprint Shareholders?
Dish Network and nTelos are claiming some impressive data rates for the fixed LTE broadband offering they have deployed in a rural Virginia trial. Participants in the trial are seeing data rates from 20 Mbps to more than 50 Mbps,…
LTE Will Underlie Dish/nTelos Fixed Wireless Broadband Service
nTelos and Dish Network plan to use LTE to support the fixed wireless broadband offering they are planning to launch in nTelos’s wireless territory, a Dish spokesman confirmed in an email to Telecompetitor today. The companies announced their plans in…
Regional Wireless Carrier nTelos to Launch 4G LTE
WAYNESBORO, VA and PARIS – March 27, 2013 — NTELOS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: NTLS), a Virginia-based regional mobile operator in the United States, and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced plans to provide improved wireless data speeds and…
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