Rural Cellular was a

telecommunications company A telecommunications company is a kind of electronic communications service provider, more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access. Many t ...

that had run the Unicel mobile network. It operated in

Midwest The Midwestern United States (also referred to as the Midwest, the Heartland or the American Midwest) is one of the four census regions defined by the United States Census Bureau. It occupies the northern central part of the United States. It ...

, Northeast, Northwest and the Southern regions of the United States and was bought by

Verizon Wireless Verizon is an American wireless network operator that previously operated as a separate division of Verizon Communications under the name Verizon Wireless. In a 2019 reorganization, Verizon moved the wireless products and services into the div ...

on January 25, 2009, for approximately $2.67 billion in cash and assumed debt.

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Rural Cellular Corporation
Defunct mobile phone companies of the United States Defunct companies based in Minnesota Verizon Wireless {{Minnesota Corporations