Shentel (Shenandoah Telecommunications Company) will reduce its workforce because of the expected sale of its wireless assets and certain liabilities to T-Mobile US, Inc. The Shentel restructuring plans have been announced to employees. Shentel was required to sell the operations…
The price has been set for T-Mobile to buy the Shentel wireless business that operated for years under the Sprint brand. Based on evaluations by three independent valuation providers, the purchase price has been set at $1.95 billion. The Shentel…
Regional broadband provider Shentel announced the launch of Beam Internet, a new fixed wireless service to be offered in parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio. Beam internet will use both existing 2.5 GHz mid-band spectrum and CBRS spectrum. The…
T-Mobile plans to exercise a two-decades-old agreement that gives it the option to purchase the wireless assets of Shentel, also known as Shenandoah Telecommunications Company, a publicly-held rural wireless and wireline provider that serves rural areas of Virginia and several…
The Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) today announced managed business services for its entire footprint, which covers parts of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Shentel Business Managed Solutions is based on Cisco Meraki technology. Its web-based dashboard interface will manage…
EDINBURG, Va., March 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) (NASDAQ: SHEN), a leading provider of telecommunications and broadband services in Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kentucky and Ohio, today announced a new pre-paid Internet service, the 25 Mbps Flex package. This new service will meet a family’s needs…
Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) has completed its deal to purchase the assets of Big Sandy Broadband, Inc., a provider of cable television, telephone and high speed internet services in Johnson and Floyd counties in eastern Kentucky. Big Sandy, which has…
Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) has launched gigabit internet service, dubbed Shentel Powerhouse, in its Virginia markets. The Shentel gigabit news is a reminder of how providers increasingly see the availability of the service as table stakes as more customers need…
February 5, 2017 — Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (“Shentel”) (NASDAQ:SHEN) announces that it has closed a transaction to further expand its relationship with Sprint, effective February 1, 2018. Shentel has signed an Expansion Agreement and amended its Affiliate Agreement with Sprint…
A new technology known as massive MIMO has the potential to help urban and rural wireless carriers substantially improve the performance of current mobile infrastructure through an antenna change. In a recent Shentel MIMO trial in Woodstock, Va, the regional…
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…
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…
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