[1st-mile-nm] Baja Broadband purchases two markets from Comcast in New Mexico

[Christopher Mitchell]

Can someone provide a little more context?  Is this acquisition removing a
provider from a market?  Which is to say, are these communities where TDS
is basically buying out its competition?

Christopher Mitchell
Director, Community Broadband Networks
Institute for Local Self-Reliance

http://www.muninetworks.org
@communitynets
612-276-3456 x209

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org> wrote:
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> From back in June:
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> http://www.tdstelecom.com/MediaRoom/Article.aspx?id=c998181e-f98b-4b96-ac9f-70d4ba8c7701
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> June 03, 2014
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> Broadband provider to expand services, upgrade network in Lovington and
> Socorro
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> TDS Baja Broadband LLC (Baja Broadband) announces the purchase of two
> cable markets in Lovington and Socorro, New Mexico from Comcast Cable
> for approx. $1.9 million. The deal was completed on June 2, 2014
> following required regulatory and local franchise authority approvals.
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> The properties are near several existing Baja markets in the state
> which will increase Baja’s geographic concentration in New Mexico. All
> five Comcast employees supporting the Lovington and Socorro communities
> will retain their jobs and transfer to Baja Broadband.
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> “We plan to perform a complete system rebuild to provide nationally
> competitive TV, phone and high speed Internet services for customers in
> both Lovington and Socorro,” explains Mark Barber, vice president of Cable
> Operations for TDS Telecom and Baja Broadband. “We expect our new products
> to be head and shoulders above the local phone company and existing
> cable offerings.”
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> (snip)
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> TDS Baja Broadband LLC, headquartered in Alamogordo, N.M., employs
> 260 people and passes more than 210,000 homes. Baja Broadband is
> a full service telecommunications company offering residential and
> commercial video, high-speed Internet, phone and data services in
> communities  throughout Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas and
> Utah. Visit bajabroadband.com.
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> Baja Broadband is a TDS® Company. TDS Telecom, headquartered in Madison,
> Wis., operates OneNeck® IT Solutions LLC and TDS Baja Broadband LLC.
> Combined, the company employs 3,100 people. Visit tdstelecom.com.
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> Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. [NYSE: TDS], a Fortune 500® company,
> provides wireless; cable and wireline broadband, TV and voice; and hosted
> and managed services to approximately 5.8 million customers nationwide
> through its subsidiaries TDS Telecom and U.S. Cellular®. Founded in 1969
> and headquartered in Chicago, Telephone and Data Systems employs 10,600
> people. Visit teldta.com.
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> P. O.  Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM    87504
> 505-603-5200                 rl at 1st-mile.org
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