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ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
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ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS | 1.ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS The Company is a holding company that, through its operating subsidiaries, (i) provides wireless and wireline telecommunications services in North America, Bermuda and the Caribbean, (ii) develops, owns and operates commercial distributed generation solar power systems in the United States and India, and (iii) owns and operates terrestrial and submarine fiber optic transport systems in the United States and in the Caribbean. The Company was incorporated in Delaware in 1987 and began trading publicly in 1991. Since that time, the Company has engaged in strategic acquisitions and investments to grow its operations. The Company actively evaluates additional domestic and international acquisition, divestiture, and investment opportunities and other strategic transactions in the telecommunications, energy-related and other industries that meet its return-on-investment and other acquisition criteria. The Company offers the following principal services:
| · |  | Wireless. In the United States, the Company offers wholesale wireless voice and data roaming services to national, regional, local and selected international wireless carriers in rural markets located principally in the Southwest and Midwest United States. The Company also offers wireless voice and data services to retail and wholesale customers in Bermuda, Guyana, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the United States.
| · |  | Wireline. The Company’s wireline services include local telephone and data services in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guyana, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the United States. The Company’s wireline services also include video services in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and the U.S Virgin Islands. In addition, the Company offers wholesale long‑distance voice services to telecommunications carriers. Through March 8, 2017, the Company also offered facilities‑based integrated voice and data communications services and wholesale transport services to enterprise and residential customers in New England, primarily Vermont, and in New York State.
| · |  | Renewable Energy. In the United States, the Company provides distributed generation solar power to corporate and municipal customers. The Company also owns and develops projects in India providing distributed generation solar power to corporate customers.
The following chart summarizes the operating activities of the Company’s principal subsidiaries, the segments in which the Company reports its revenue and the markets it served as of September 30, 2017:
Segment |  | Services |  | Markets |  | Tradenames |
U.S. Telecom |  | Wireless |  | United States (rural markets) |  | Commnet, Choice, Choice NTUA Wireless |
|  | Wireline |  | United States |  | Essextel |
International Telecom |  | Wireline |  | Bermuda, Guyana, U.S. Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands |  | One (formerly Logic in Bermuda), GTT+, Viya (formerly Innovative), Logic |
|  | Wireless |  | Bermuda, Guyana, U.S. Virgin Islands |  | One (formerly CellOne), GTT+, Viya (formerly Innovative and Choice) |
|  | Video Services |  | Bermuda, U.S. Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands |  | One (formerly Bermuda CableVision), Viya (formerly Innovative), Logic |
Renewable Energy |  | Solar |  | United States (Massachusetts, California, and New Jersey), India |  | Ahana Renewables, Vibrant Energy |
The Company actively evaluates potential acquisitions, investment opportunities and other strategic transactions, both domestic and international, that meet its return on investment and other criteria. The Company provides management, technical, financial, regulatory, and marketing services to its subsidiaries and typically receives a management fee equal to a percentage of their respective revenue. Management fees from subsidiaries are eliminated in consolidation.

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