Portfolio – Telecom

* denotes current portfolio company

 
AmeriVault*
BACK TO TOP		 AmeriVault provides online data backup services to companies worldwide. AmeriVault offers highly reliable, automated backup and recovery services that assure fast and accurate restoration following data loss or destruction. As a result, AmeriVault's technology-driven solution delivers an entirely new business model for the traditional offsite data storage and protection industry.
Arrival Communications
BACK TO TOP		 Arrival Communications is a facilities-based competitive telecommunications service provider focused on small and medium-sized business customers in secondary markets in California. The Company offers its customers a wide range of telecommunications services including local voice, long distance, and high speed data.
Brooks Fiber Properties
BACK TO TOP		 Brooks Fiber was a leading full service provider of competitive local telecommunications services in 40 second tier cities, MSA's 50 through 100, throughout the United States. Brooks Fiber was acquired by MCI WorldCom in December 1997.
C-COR / Worldbridge Broadband Services
BACK TO TOP		 Worldbridge Broadband Services provided highly skilled, hands-on technicians and ongoing process management services on an outsourced basis to telecommunications network operators in the U.S. and abroad. Worldbridge was acquired by C-COR.net in January 2000.
Chinook Wireless (MTPCS)*
BACK TO TOP		 MTPCS, LLC, operating under the name Chinook Wireless, is a PCS provider created by Alta and Jon Foxman. Jon Foxman is a repeat entrepreneur who we have worked with in the successful investments of Sol Communications and Highland Cellular. MTPCS was formed through a roll-up of existing local wireless companies and spectrum in Montana to provide a new statewide network. MTPCS is a high quality, reliable, trusted wireless service provider that is both locally-based and nationally-connected.
Coloma Wireless
BACK TO TOP		 Alta was the founding investor in Coloma Wireless, a company formed to participate in the FCC's WCS/2.3 GHz spectrum auctions. Coloma purchased spectrum covering 75 million pops. The Company was sold to AT&T in January 1999.
Cypress Communications
BACK TO TOP		 Cypress Communications provides in-building broadband communications services to small and medium-sized businesses located in commercial office buildings throughout the United States. The Company was acquired by U.S. RealTel, Inc. in 2002.
Diveo Broadband Networks*
BACK TO TOP		 Diveo is a leading facilities-based provider of broadband data and Internet infrastructure services for corporate customers in the major urban markets throughout Latin America. Diveo owns and operates high capacity local access networks which transport data at high speeds and provide dedicated links and Internet access to large and medium-sized businesses, telecommunications carriers, ISPs and others. Through its data centers, Diveo provides facilities and internetworking services such as web hosting, collocation and managed services. Diveo currently operates in regions of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.
Fundy Communications
BACK TO TOP		 Fundy Communications is a cable TV and telecommunications provider in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. Alta made an initial investment in Fundy to enable the Company (which was publicly-traded at the time) to build a telecommunications infrastructure. In January 1998, Alta brought in other co-investors to take Fundy private. Fundy sold its cable television assets to Shaw Communications in May 1999.
Grande Communications*
BACK TO TOP		 Grande Communications is a Texas-based communications company providing residential and business customers with high speed Internet access, local and long distance phone services, and cable services over a single network and in one value-priced package. Grande is building this new, high capacity, fiber optic network from the ground up, using the latest technological advancements in broadband communications.
Highland Cellular
BACK TO TOP		 Highland Cellular is a locally-owned and operated wireless provider, offering TDMA and GSM service in southern West Virginia and southwest Virginia.
Highwinds Capital*
BACK TO TOP		 Highwinds Capital is a multi-platform IP services provider that specializes in software, content delivery network and IP infrastructure services (transport, hosting and storage).  The Company has been a leader in the development of content replication and delivery software and services for the past five years.  With its network assets, the Company offers a powerful, reliable means for quickly and successfully moving rich media content at a global level.   Highwinds is headquartered in Orlando, FL.
Mid-Maine Communications
BACK TO TOP		 Mid-Maine Communications (MMC) is a full service telecommunications company with offices in Bangor and Portland, ME. MMC offers residential local exchange service to areas around Bangor and provides business customers local, long distance and data services throughout Maine. MMC is the second largest provider of dial-up internet services to residential and business customers in the state, in addition to providing data transport on its own OC-48 fiber network.
Pegasus / Golden Sky Holdings

www.goldensky.com

BACK TO TOP		 Golden Sky Holdings was a direct broadcast satellite provider in rural markets. Golden Sky merged with Pegasus (NASDAQ: "PGTV") in a $2.2 billion stock merger.
PrairieWave Communications
BACK TO TOP		 PrairieWave Communications provides local and long distance phone services, cable television and high speed Internet access to communities in South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa. Alta Communications and Bank of America Capital Investors formed PrairieWave through the acquisition of properties from McLeodUSA.
SOL PCS (STPCS)
BACK TO TOP		 Sol Communications was a wireless company that provided PCS services in South Texas and operates as a joint venture with VoiceStream. The Company was acquired by VoiceStream in January 2001.
ST Enterprises
BACK TO TOP		 ST Enterprises Ltd. is a provider of rural local telephone service in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Kansas. Alta exited this investment in 1999.
Telephia
BACK TO TOP		 Telephia's portfolio of marketing and service quality information products helps mobile service operators, device manufacturers, infrastructure companies, and enterprises make better business decisions. Mobile companies use Telephia information products to track their position in the mobile marketplace, optimize investment decisions, and drive adoption and usage of their services and products.
WNP Communications
BACK TO TOP		 WNP Communications was a company formed in 1998 to participate in the Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) auctions. WNP was sold in 1999 to Nextlink Communications.
Zuma PCS
BACK TO TOP		 Zuma PCS was formed to participate in the FCC's PCS spectrum re-auctions. Zuma PCS owned licenses in Georgia and Texas.