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Nebraska Wireless Telephone Co. is the trade name of Wireless II, LLC, a 1.9 GHz PCS wireless licensee that has done business as Nebraska Wireless since 1995. It was formed as a partnership of six independent rural telephone operating companies and built CDMA networks in Grand Island, Kearney, North Platte and Norfolk, Neb.; a September 1998 RCR Wireless News report described a $4 million Nortel contract to supply its switching and base-station equipment. It is no longer an independent brand: in August 2003, Wireless II (d/b/a Nebraska Wireless) combined with NE Colorado Cellular, Inc. — d/b/a Cellular One of Northeast Colorado, founded 1991 by Frank DiRico — to form Viaero Wireless, with NE Colorado Cellular as sole owner and operator (Viaero/Nokia press release, Aug. 22, 2003; Viaero "About Us"; Wikipedia).
Ownership status is private. Viaero is headquartered in Fort Morgan, Colo., and FCC filings for Wireless II, LLC list 1224 W. Platte Ave., Fort Morgan, with officers Troy Sandelin (chairman), Andy Jader (CEO) and Tim Bittinger (president), per FCC.report. No public revenue, employee-count or market-cap figures are available from the sources reviewed.
Operations: a regional rural wireless carrier selling mobile voice/data service, originally CDMA and migrated to GSM/GPRS/EDGE under the Viaero brand, covering parts of northeast Colorado and central/western Nebraska with associated retail stores. This is an operating communications carrier, not a patent-assertion entity.
Litigation posture: the case data show 1 tracked case, as defendant, 0 as plaintiff — the classic profile of an operating company being sued rather than an NPE asserting patents. The single case sits in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, not a plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable case: Freedom Wireless, Inc. v. Centennial Cellular Operating Co. et al. (D. Mass., filed May 20, 2005). Nebraska Wireless Telephone Co. appears as one of numerous regional-carrier co-defendants. Plaintiff Freedom Wireless, a Phoenix-based holder of prepaid-cellular patents credited to inventors Douglas Fougnies and Dan Harned, is characterized in Stanford's NPE Litigation Database as "individual-inventor-started." The related action against Boston Communications Group (1:05-cv-11062) produced a $128 million Boston jury verdict in May 2005 against BCGI and carriers Cingular, AT&T Wireless, CMT Partners and Western Wireless. The Massachusetts venue stemmed from an earlier transfer from California. No outcome specific to Nebraska Wireless Telephone Co. is verifiable here.