Company overview. Illinois Valley Cellular RSA 2, Inc. ("IVC," trading as Illinois Valley Cellular, ivcel.com) is a small, privately held rural wireless carrier headquartered at 200 Riverfront Drive, Marseilles, Illinois. It is not publicly traded. Ownership is held through partnerships: Marseilles Cellular, Inc. — 100% owned by MTCO Corporation of Metamora, Illinois — holds the controlling general-partnership interest (77% in the affiliated RSA 2-II partnership after Alltel/Verizon withdrew in 2018), with Tonica Cellular, Inc. holding the minority stake. Members of the Rauh family are the ultimate principals. FCC records list Glenn Rauh as chairman and Thomas Walsh as chief executive. Third-party business directories (Salary.com, NeverBounce) estimate 50–100 employees and roughly $10–50M revenue; these are aggregator estimates, not company-reported figures.
Operations. IVC provides commercial mobile radio service over the FCC's 850 MHz B-block cellular license for Illinois RSA 2, an eight-county area (Bureau, Putnam, LaSalle, Stark, Marshall, Livingston, Ford and Iroquois counties) running from the Indiana line toward Peoria and the Iowa line. Operations are organized as three affiliated partnerships (Illinois Valley Cellular RSA 2-I, 2-II and 2-III) operated as a single network, with retail "Wireless Solutions Center" stores. IVC has held eligible telecommunications carrier (ETC) designation to receive federal universal service support in Illinois and an international Section 214 global-resale authorization. This is an operating company, not a patent-assertion entity.
Litigation posture. The tracked data show one case, as a defendant, and zero as plaintiff — the profile of an operating company being sued, not an NPE. The single matter, Freedom Wireless, Inc. v. Centennial Cellular Operating Co. et al., was filed May 20, 2005 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Boston), not a plaintiff-friendly Texas venue.
Context. That 2005 action was part of Freedom Wireless's multi-defendant campaign against prepaid-wireless providers; a Boston jury that month awarded roughly $128 million against Boston Communications Group and several large carriers over prepaid-calling patents. IVC appears to have been one of many smaller carrier co-defendants. No further tracked litigation is recorded.