AirGate PCS, Inc. to Open the Nasdaq Stock Market On April 19.Business Editors & High Tech Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2002 AirGate PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. , Inc., (Nasdaq/NM: PCSA PCSA Primary Care Service Area PCSA Personal Computing Systems Architecture PCSA Power Crane and Shovel Association PCSA Peel Committee on Sexual Assault (Canada) PCSA Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa ), a Sprint PCS Network Partner, today announced that Thomas M. Dougherty, chief executive officer of AirGate PCS, will open the Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on Friday, April 19, 2002. "AirGate PCS is very proud to have the opportunity to participate in the market open for the Nasdaq Stock Market," Dougherty commented. "Since our initial listing on Nasdaq in September 1999 as the first Sprint PCS Network Partner to become a separate publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. , AirGate has experienced tremendous growth. From our initial commercial PCS market launch in January 2000, we have demonstrated strong execution of our business plan and now serve a territory that includes over 14.6 million residents in seven states. We are very pleased to be recognized by Nasdaq as a leader in the competitive wireless service industry." The market open ceremony will be broadcast live at 9:30 a.m. EDT on April 19, 2002 and photos will be archived on the MarketSite portion of Nasdaq's Web site at www.nasdaq.com. AirGate PCS, Inc., including its subsidiaries, is a Sprint PCS Network Partner with the exclusive right to sell Sprint PCS products and services in territories within seven states located in the southeastern and mid-western United States. The territories include over 14.6 million residents in key markets such as Grand Rapids, Michigan “Grand Rapids” redirects here. For other uses, see Grand Rapids (disambiguation). Grand Rapids is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 197,800. ; Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina; Augusta and Savannah, Georgia; Champaign-Urbana and Springfield, Illinois; and the Quad Cities areas of Illinois and Iowa. AirGate PCS is among the largest Sprint PCS Network Partners. As a Sprint PCS Network Partner, AirGate PCS operates its own local PCS network to exclusively provide 100% digital, 100% PCS products and services under the Sprint brand name in its territories. |
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