Shentel has been providing wireless service to portions of a six-state area, including Virginia.(Pixabay)
Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) is exiting the wireless business that it entered as an affiliate of Sprint back in 1995, but that doesn’t mean it’s getting out of wireless entirely.
The company holds licenses in the 2.5 and 3.5 GHz bands that it’s using for its Beam fixed wireless service. The 2.5 GHz holdings are connected to Broadband Radio Service (BRS) licenses and Educational Broadband Service (EBS) leases, and the 3.5 GHz is what it acquired in the Citizens Broadband Radio Services (CBRS) auction last year. In total, Shentel’s spectrum covers more than 5 million PoPs for an average spectrum depth of 39 MHz.