Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
PageNet. PageNet , also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.
A Schedule C appointment is a type of political appointment in the United States for confidential or policy roles immediately subordinate to other appointees. As of 2016, there were 1,403 Schedule C appointees. [1] Most of these are confidential assistants, policy experts, special counsels, and schedulers, although about 500 of them are non ...
US$133 million (2019) Number of employees. 4,800 (1Q 2023) Parent. Telephone and Data Systems (84%) Website. www .uscellular .com. United States Cellular Corporation ( doing business as UScellular and formerly known as U.S. Cellular) is an American mobile network operator. It is a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems Inc. (which owns an 84% ...
But Verizon, the telecommunications giant, seems to have found a way to hold onto its employees. The average tenure of around 110,000 workers is 12.9 years, well over three times the U.S. average .
The Communications Workers of America ( CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico ). [1] [2] The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada (French: Syndicat des communications d'Amérique ...
The 2016 Verizon workers' strike was a labor action in the United States involving about 40,000 Verizon Communications landline and Verizon Fios workers. The strike, which began April 13, was organized by trade unions International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Communications Workers of America, and represents the biggest labor action in the United States since the Verizon strike ...
Western Wireless Corporation was a cellular network operator that provided mobile telecommunications service to subscribers in 19 western states in the United States, and seven other countries. Western Wireless marketed analog cellular service under the CELLULAR ONE brand in 88 FCC -defined rural service areas and digital PCS service under the ...
Frontier West Virginia was the first Bell Operating Company to have been completely divested by a Baby Bell and sold to a non-Baby Bell. Some historically Bell local access lines have been sold to non-Baby Bells over the years by BellSouth, US West, and Verizon; however, the Bell Operating Companies from which those exchanges were split have ...