Spirit Communications, a company that provides voice, data, Internet, and fiber optic solutions, announced they will acquire SCANA Corporation’s telecommunications subsidiary SCI, including its interest in FRC, a fiber network joint venture between SCI and Spirit Communications. Both companies are based in South Carolina, and Spirit Communications will acquire SCI’s fiber network, which includes over 1,125 route miles of dense long haul and metro fiber, and extends across multiple markets in South Carolina, and in North Carolina. Spirit Communications will also acquire SCI’s cellular tower business, which constructs and manages towers in the Carolinas and Tennessee. “The acquisition of SCI and FRC supports our strategy to be fiber-based and improves the fundamentals of our business, both operationally and financially, and provides a unique platform to serve our customers. This acquisition makes Spirit the largest fiber-based CLEC in South Carolina” said Bob Keane, president and CEO of Spirit Communications. “We have enjoyed a long and successful partnership with SCANA over the years, and this acquisition enhances our extensive and unique network in the Carolinas. In addition to the outright purchase of SCI, the agreement between SCANA and Spirit Communications builds on the longstanding relationship we have both enjoyed for many years and increases our commitment to serve SCANA and all South Carolina businesses, government agencies, medical institutions and research universities.”
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