Extend America, a new telecommunications company based in Bismarck, North Dakota, announced the opening of its business and the securing of first stage financing from investors Ignition Partners, Cascade Investments, and the Greenspun Group. Extend America will begin deploying fixed and mobile digital wireless service to homes and businesses throughout rural America as well as offer service in mid-sized and urban markets through arrangements with a carrier partner. The company will initially focus on North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska.
http://www.extendamerica.com
- Extend America’s Board of Directors includes Michael Larson, chief investment adviser to Microsoft’s Bill Gates; Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes Magazine; and Greg Rohde, former head of the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration and founder of e-Copernicus.com.