ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS

ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS

1. ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS

The Company provides wireless and wireline telecommunications services in North America, Bermuda and the Caribbean. Through its operating subsidiaries, the Company offers the following principal services:

· Wireless.  In the United States, the Company offers wireless voice and data services to retail customers under the “Alltel” name in rural markets located principally in the Southeast and Midwest. Additionally, the Company offers wholesale wireless voice and data roaming services to national, regional and local wireless carriers and selected international wireless carriers in rural markets located principally in the Southwest and Midwest United States. The Company also offers wireless voice and data services to retail customers in Bermuda under the “CellOne” name, in Guyana under the “Cellink” name, and in other smaller markets in the Caribbean and the United States.

· Wireline.  The Company’s local telephone and data services include its operations in Guyana and the mainland United States. The Company is the exclusive provider of domestic wireline local and long distance telephone services in Guyana and international voice and data communications into and out of Guyana. The Company also offers facilities-based integrated voice and data communications services to enterprise and residential customers in New England, primarily in Vermont, and wholesale transport services in New York State.

In the second quarter of 2010, the Company completed the acquisition of its U.S. retail wireless business, which provides wireless voice and data services in rural markets of the United States under the “Alltel” brand name (the “Alltel Acquisition”). Since 2005, revenue from U.S. operations has significantly grown as a percentage of consolidated revenue and as a result of the Alltel Acquisition, a substantial majority of the Company’s consolidated revenue is now generated in the United States, mainly through mobile wireless operations. For more information about the Alltel Acquisition, see Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Report.

In the second quarter of 2011, the Company continued its expansion and completed the merger of its Bermuda operations with M3 Wireless, Ltd., a leading retail wireless provider in Bermuda and entered into a joint venture with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (“NTUA”) to provide retail wireless services on the Navajo Nation.  For more information on the Bermuda merger and the NTUA joint venture, see Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Report.  The Company actively evaluates additional investment and acquisition opportunities in the United States and the Caribbean that meet our return-on-investment and other acquisition criteria.

The following chart summarizes the operating activities of the Company’s principal subsidiaries, the segments in which the Company reports its revenue and the markets it served as of June 30, 2011:

Services	Segment	Markets	Tradenames
Wireless	U.S. Wireless	United States (rural markets)	Alltel, Choice
	Island Wireless	Aruba, Bermuda, Turks and Caicos, U.S. Virgin Islands	Mio, CellOne, Islandcom, Choice
	International Integrated Telephony	Guyana	Cellink
Wireline	International Integrated Telephony	Guyana	GT&T, Emagine
	U.S. Wireline	United States (New England and New York State)	Sovernet, ION

The Company provides management, technical, financial, regulatory, and marketing services to its subsidiaries and typically receives a management fee equal to a percentage of their respective revenue. Management fees from consolidated subsidiaries are eliminated in consolidation. For information about the Company’s business segments and geographical information about its revenue, operating income and long-lived assets, see Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Report.