Shentel

Shenandoah Telecommunications Company
Public
Traded as NASDAQ: SHEN
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 1902[1]
Headquarters Edinburg, Virginia, USA
Services Local and long-distance telephone service, cable television, Internet access, wireless Internet access, digital phone, fiber-optic Internet, wholesale
Revenue Increase 130.3 million[2]
Decrease $-6.150 million [3]
Decrease $-6.995 million[4]
Number of employees
662[5]
Website www.shentel.com

Shentel, officially Shenandoah Telecommunications Company, is a publicly traded telecommunications company headquartered in Edinburg, Virginia. It operates a digital wireless and wireline network in rural Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.[6]

Shentel operates its wireless division as a Sprint affiliate,[7] serving 1,006,874 subscribers. [8]

History

In May 2016, Shentel finished acquiring its competitor Ntelos[9] for 640 million dollars.[10] acquiring 297,500 subscribers. The deal also transferred an additional 291,000 subscribers from Sprint in exchange for ntelos spectrum[11][12]

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