nTelos

nTelos Licenses, Inc., operating under the nTelos brand, was a regional telecommunications provider in the United States, primarily serving areas within the Mid-Atlantic region including Virginia, West Virginia, and portions of Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Focusing on providing mobile network services, nTelos utilized CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) technology, a technology commonly used by other major US carriers such as Verizon and Sprint (before its merger with T-Mobile). Assigned the Mobile Country Code (MCC) 312, designating the United States, and Mobile Network Code (MNC) 610, nTelos held a unique identifier within the U.S. mobile landscape, crucial for proper device configuration and network roaming agreements. Though smaller in scale compared to national giants like AT&T and T-Mobile, nTelos focused on its regional presence and specific customer needs, including offering competitive pricing plans and focusing on customer support within their operational footprint in North America & the Caribbean. Eventually, the company underwent significant changes, including a merger with Shentel (Shenandoah Telecommunications Company) around 2016 which phased out the nTelos brand and migrating customers to the Shentel network using the NTELOS spectrum licenses, marking the conclusion of nTelos as an independent entity, and its MCC/MNC combination as operating network indicators.