Centennial Communications Adds a New Director.Business Editors WALL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2003 Centennial Communications Centennial Communications (NASDAQ: CYCL) and its subsidiaries (Centennial Wireless (U.S.), Centennial Dominicana and Centennial de Puerto Rico) provide wireless and broadband telecommunications services to wireless telephone subscribers in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CYCL), a leading regional telecommunications service provider A Telecommunications Service Provider or TSP is a type of Communications Service Provider that has traditionally provided telephone and similar services. This category includes ILECs, CLECs, and mobile wireless companies. , today announced that Ellen C. Wolf has been appointed to the Company's board of directors. Ms. Wolf will also serve as a member of the Company's audit committee. Ms. Wolf has been chief financial officer of American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AWK (Aho Weinberger Kernighan) A Unix programming utility developed in 1977 by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan. Due to its unique pattern-matching syntax, awk is often used in data retrieval and data transformation. ) since 1999. American Water Works was recently purchased by German utility RWE RWE Rot-Weiss Essen (Germann football club) RWE Ralph Waldo Emerson RWE Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke (German Power Supplier) RWE Read Write Execute RWE Right Wing Extremist AG for approximately $8.6 billion in cash and assumed debt. Prior to joining American Water Works, Ms. Wolf spent 12 years with Bell Atlantic, the last 4 of which as the vice president-treasurer of Bell Atlantic Corporation. Prior to joining Bell Atlantic, Ms. Wolf spent 8 years with the accounting firm of Deloitte Haskins & Sells. Ms. Wolf received a B.A. from Duke University and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton, making it the world’s oldest business school. . "We are delighted to welcome Ellen to the Centennial Board," said Michael J. Small, chief executive officer. "Ellen's strong finance and accounting background coupled with her over 10 years of experience in the telecommunications arena will be a great asset for Centennial as we continue to grow our businesses." Centennial is one of the largest independent wireless telecommunications service providers in the United States and the Caribbean with approximately 17.1 million Net Pops and approximately 896,800 wireless subscribers. Centennial's U.S. operations have approximately 6.0 million Net Pops in small cities and rural areas. Centennial's Caribbean integrated communications operation owns and operates wireless licenses for approximately 11.1 million Net Pops in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and provides voice, data, video and Internet services on broadband networks in the region. Welsh, Carson Anderson & Stowe and an affiliate of the Blackstone Group are controlling shareholders of Centennial. For more information regarding Centennial, please visit our websites at www.centennialcom.com and www.centennialpr.com |
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