[April 01, 2004] D&E Communications Signs Transport Agreement With T-Mobile USA EPHRATA, Pa. --(Business Wire)-- April 1, 2004 -- D&E Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:DECC) has signed a five-year contract with wireless service provider T-Mobile USA to transport voice and data in the central Pennsylvania region. D&E, an integrated communications provider, will supply T-1 lines to approximately 240 cell tower sites throughout central Pennsylvania. These connections will transport T-Mobile voice and data traffic through points of presence in Lancaster, Reading, Harrisburg and York, and the communications will then be sent on to a mobile switching center in West Norriton, Pa. We are pleased to work with T-Mobile, a premier provider of advanced mobile communications services, said G. William Ruhl, Chief Executive Officer of D&E. For 93 years, D&E has been meeting the communications needs of people in central Pennsylvania. With this project, we can play a role in providing reliable connections for T-Mobile, which offers its customers world-class digital voice, messaging and high-speed wireless data services. Under the contract, D&E will provide T-1 lines to cell tower sites in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, York, Lancaster, Lebanon, Berks, Perry, Mifflin, Juniata, Franklin and Fulton counties. D&E provides telecommunication services to more than 175,000 lines in central and eastern Pennsylvania. Founded in 1911 and based in Lancaster County, D&E is the nation's 19th-largest independent telephone company and also offers long distance, Internet and voice and data network systems integration services. The Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania named D&E as its 2002 Technology Company of the Year, and the Central Penn Business Journal recently ranked it as the region's second-fastest-growing company. For more information, visit www.decommunications.com. This press release may contain forward-looking statements. These statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of D&E's management concerning the development of our business, are not guarantees of future performance and involve a number of risks, uncertainties, and other important factors that could cause actual developments and results to differ materially from our expectations. These include factors that we have indicated could adversely affect our business and financial performance contained in our past and future filings and reports, including those filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. D&E undertakes no obligation to revise or update its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]