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Shentel

Overview

Shenandoah Telecommunications Company

trading name	Shentel
type	Public
traded as	nasdaq: SHEN S&P 600 component Russell 2000 component
foundation	1902‡R1R‡
location city	Edinburg, Virginia
location country	U.S.
industry	Telecommunications
services	Local and long-distance telephone service, cable television, Internet access, wireless Internet access, digital phone, fiber-optic Internet, wholesale
revenue	$612 million (2017)‡R2R‡
operating income	$46.5 million (2017)‡R2R‡
net income	$-6.995 million (2016)‡R2R‡
num employees	1200 ‡R3R‡
homepage	http://shentel.com

Shenandoah Telecommunications Company, doing business as Shentel, 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.[4]

History

Shentel was founded in January 1902 as the Farmers' Mutual Telephone System of Shenandoah County (FMTS).[5] This was one of a number of Farmers' Mutual telephone systems established in rural areas of the United States. The company's initial goal was to bring telephone service to rural residents of Shenandoah County, VA.[6] In 1960, the name changed to Shenandoah Telephone Company, then in 1981 to Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel).[4] The company launched cable TV service and a fiber optic network in the 1980s. In 1984, Shentel added mobile and paging services.