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• Knology Announces Closing of PrairieWave Acquisition

  - 2007-04-03

  WEST POINT, Ga. -- Knology, Inc. (NASDAQ-GM: KNOL) today closed its previously-announced acquisition of PrairieWave Communications, a voice, video and high-speed internet broadband services provider in the Rapid City and Sioux Falls, South Dakota regions, including portions of Minnesota and Iowa. In connection with the transaction, Knology entered into a...

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• Knology Initiates Financing for the Acquisition of PrairieWave Communications and the Refinancing of Its Senior Secured Credit Facilities

  - 2007-02-13

  WEST POINT, Ga. -- Knology, Inc. (NASDAQ-GM: KNOL) announced today that it has engaged Credit Suisse Securities, LLC to arrange and syndicate a new Senior Secured Credit Facility to finance its acquisition of PrairieWave Communications and refinance its existing First and Second Lien Term Loans. The proposed transaction includes new...

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• Knology Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire PrairieWave Communications

  - 2007-01-09

  WEST POINT, Ga. -- Knology, Inc. (NASDAQ-GM: KNOL) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PrairieWave Communications, a voice, video and high-speed internet broadband services provider in South Dakota, as well as portions of Minnesota and Iowa. Knology will pay cash consideration of $255 million,...

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• Tekelec's Next-Generation Switching Solutions Enable Enhanced VoIP Services for PrairieWave

  - 2005-09-21

  BOSTON -- Tekelec (NASDAQ: TKLC), a leading developer of telecommunications products for next-generation fixed, mobile and packet networks, today announced at the Fall 2005 VON Conference & Expo that South Dakota-based PrairieWave Communications has deployed Tekelec 7000 Class 5 Packet switches (T7000) and the Tekelec 6000 Voice over Internet Protocol...

  Tags: VoIP, VoIP service

• GE Commercial Finance Global Media & Communications Provides $170 Million in Acquisition Financing for PrairieWave Communications

  - 2005-07-11

  NORWALK, Conn. -- GE Commercial Finance Global Media & Communications announced today that it has provided $170 million in senior secured financing as administrative agent for Sioux Falls, SD-based broadband communications company PrairieWave Communications, Inc. The facility will fund PrairieWave's acquisition of Black Hills FiberCom, a provider of convergent communications...

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• Overbuilder scores in South Dakota.

  - 2005-02-28

  A tussle over a cable overbuild franchise for Sioux Falls, S.D., has spilled into the aisles of the Legislature--and might end up allowing the competitor to avoid full-buildout requirements. That competitor is PrairieWave Communications, an incumbent local-exchange carrier in Minnesota, South...

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• Overbuilder Scores in South Dakota (Multichannel News)

  - 2005-02-28

  A tussle over a cable overbuild franchise for Sioux Falls, S.D., has spilled into the aisles of the Legislature -- and might end up allowing the competitor to avoid full-buildout requirements. That competitor is PrairieWave Communications, an incumbent local-exchange carrier in Minnesota, South Dakota and...

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• Kasenna lands Charter, PrarieWave deals.(Deployments)(Kasenna Inc.)(Charter Communications Inc.)(PrairieWave Communications)

  - 2004-06-21

  ORLANDO. FLA. -- Kasenna Inc. has landed its first big-name cable operator, signing a deal to deploy its video-on-demand servers in Charter Communications Inc.'s Malibu, Calif., system. The deal was one of many vendor-operator announcements emanati ORLANDO. FLA. -- Kasenna Inc. has landed its...

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• Op challenges OVS rival in South Dakota.(Open Video Services)(PrairieWave Communications)

  - 2004-04-26

  Normally, pro-competition city councilmen such as those in Sioux Falls, S.D., would be happy right now. The town of 130,000 residents has a competitive open-video-services provider, PrairieWave Communications, willing to submit to licensing under local ordinance in order to come into...

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