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Rural Cellular
Company type Defunct
Industry Cellular Communications
Founded1990
Successor Verizon Wireless
Headquarters Alexandria, Minnesota, United States
Key people
Richard Eckstrand(CEO, President, & Director)
Products Cellular Telephone Service
Revenue125.7 Million in Q3 of 2003
Number of employees
1,001
Website https://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]

External links

  1. ^ [1] Verizon Wireless To Acquire Rural Cellular Corporation

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  1. ^ "Rural Cellular Corporation: Private Company Information - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2017-04-19.