This Week: US Cellular's Final Chapter & the Impending Rural Telecom Consolidation Wave

The Week with Roger · Jul 14, 2025 · 11m

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the decline and fall of US Cellular, the future of its assets, as well as Recon Analytics' extensive data collection on rural telco consolidation.

00:26 DOJ greenlights US Cellular sale

02:10 The company avoided major competition

03:55 A piecemeal sale of its assets

05:57 Regional carriers are waning

07:06 Recon Analytics' rural data project

11:31 Episode wrap-up

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid, postpaid, cellular phone, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, US Cellular, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, spectrum, rural, FCC, DOJ, C Spire…