Redzone buys GWI’s Midcoast wireless network
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Michael Forcillo, left, vice president of sales and marketing at Redzone Wireless, and Jim McKenna, Redzone's president.
Rockland-based wireless service provider Redzone Wireless, LLC has acquired the wireless network assets of Biddeford-based GWI, which provides service to both residential and commercial customers primarily in Midcoast Maine and many Penobscot Bay coastal and island communities.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“We are pleased to announce this Redzone broadband service expansion. The new areas now covered by Redzone are extremely complementary to our existing network. We are particularly excited to be adding services to many rural and island communities,” Redzone President Jim McKenna said in a prepared statement.
With the acquisition, Redzone will now provide service to hundreds of wireless internet customers in underserved communities including Union, Jefferson, Georgetown, Somerville, Waldoboro, Northport, Owls Head, Rockport, Lincolnville, Warren and Belfast.
Redzone will also serve new and existing customers living on the island communities of North Haven, Westport, Vinalhaven, Monhegan, Matinicus, Squirrel Island and Islesboro.
“Redzone is a state leader in wireless broadband deployment and will be able to leverage their expertise to improve and expand the purchased wireless network. This is an example of two Maine-based companies coming together to help bring better broadband to coastal communities,” GWI CEO Fletcher Kittredge, a 2011 Mainebiz Business Leader of the Year, said in a prepared statement.
"Our company's focus is on fiber optic deployment and given our trajectory, selling our wireless assets to a company whose primary attention is on wireless deployment will be better for business and residential customers alike," added Kittredge.
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