(mobile-ip 703) Cellular Reseller to purchase another
Paul Robinson <PAUL@tdr.com> Sun, 30 January 1994 00:44 UTC
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From: Paul Robinson <PAUL@tdr.com>
Subject: (mobile-ip 703) Cellular Reseller to purchase another
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From: Paul Robinson <PAUL@TDR.COM> Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA ----- Summary from "N.Y. Firm Makes Bid For Unicel" by John Burgess {Washington Post}, Jan 27, Page D11 Nationwide Cellular Service, Inc. of Valley Stream, NY, a cellular reseller with about $115 million in 1991 sales and 175,000 customers in several cities plus the Washington DC area, on Jan 26 tentatively agreed to buy Columbia MD-based Unicell America, Inc., a competing reseller with about 12,000 customers in the DC/MD Eastern Shore/Delaware corridor, for $4.6 million. A cellular reseller is someone who buys blocks of numbers from a cellular carrier at wholesale discount then resells them at retail markup. In 1991 Nationwide bought GTE's Washington reseller. As such, only one other reseller - for Motorola purchasers - would exist in the area. This worries Chicago-Based Consulting firm Prarie Street Partners, which has objected to the merger, claiming it could violate Maryland's antitrust laws. MD Assistant Attorney General Alan Barr says he is interested but can't promise that the deal is being examined. Unicell is a division of Walker Telecommunications Corp., which is currently undergoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The court would have to approve the sale. Neither the trustee for Walker nor a spokesman for Nationwide had any comment. --- Paul Robinson - Paul@TDR.COM Voted "Largest Polluter of the (IETF) list" by Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> ----- The following Automatic Fortune Cookie was selected only for this message: Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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