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Midco (known as Midcontinent Communications until 2016) is a regional cable provider, providing a triple play service of cable television, Internet and telephone service for both North Dakota and South Dakota, along with much of Minnesota, and several communities in Kansas and Wisconsin. [2]
Cellular One is the trademarked brand name that licenses services (radio frequencies for telecommunications) used by several cellular service providers in the United States. The brand was sold to Trilogy Partners by AT&T in 2008 shortly after AT&T had completed its acquisition of Dobson Communications. Cellular One was originally the trade name ...
In 2000, Roberts acquired AT&T Broadband for $53.2 billion in stock and assumed debt. The deal allowed Comcast to become the largest cable operator in the world. In 2009, NBCUniversal was also acquired by Comcast. [8] In 2016, Roberts received US$28.6 million in compensation, [9] and in 2020, his net worth was US$1.7 billion. [10]
In November 1995, the company began to offer wireless service under the Sprint Spectrum brand in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. [45] This was the first commercial Personal Communications Service (PCS) network in the United States. [45] Although the Sprint PCS service was CDMA, the original Washington-area network used GSM. [45]
Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. is an American telecommunications company. [6] Known as Citizens Utilities Company until 2000, [7] Citizens Communications Company until 2008, [8] and Frontier Communications Corporation until 2020, [6] as a communications provider [9] with a fiber-optic network [10] and cloud-based services, [11] Frontier offers broadband internet, digital television, and ...
QVC was founded on June 13, 1986, by Joseph Segel and investors including Ralph Roberts, the founder and chairperson of Comcast.Roberts was able to arrange deals in which cable companies received investment stakes in QVC in exchange for carrying the channel. [1]
US West was accused by critics [who?] of failing to meet service needs within a reasonable time frame and of practicing predatory billing and collection methods. While the company often claimed that subscriber demands were often greater than their ability to fulfill orders, many critics pointed to high profit margins, spending on bring-to-market technology and lackluster investment in customer ...
BellSouth, LLC (stylized as BELLSOUTH and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation) was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia.BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone & Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984.