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| Company type | Defunct |
|---|---|
| Industry | Cellular Communications |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Successor | Verizon Wireless |
| Headquarters | Alexandria, Minnesota, United States |
Key people | Richard Eckstrand(CEO, President, & Director) |
| Products | Cellular Telephone Service |
| Revenue | 125.7 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]