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Knology Inc. was a cable company formed in 1994 by ITC Holding Company, LLC, a telecommunications holding company in West Point, Georgia that also founded Internet service provider Mindspring. In 1999, Knology merged with Valley Telephone Company. The Knology network serves around a dozen cities in the Southern United States. Knology also briefly owned the cable franchise in Cerritos, California, which it acquired from GTE, along with a system in Pinellas County, Florida. The Cerritos system was since sold to Wave Broadband. On March 2, 2000, KNOLOGY, Inc. announced strong performance in connections, revenues and homes marketed for the year and the fourth quarter of 1999 . On March 30, 2005, Knology Inc. reported that it narrowed its losses in 2004 and found a buyer for a California cable system it purchased in 2003 at the same time it took over cable operations in some parts of Pinellas County. On January 9, 2007, Knology announced it had acquired Sioux Falls, South Dakota, based Prairiewave Communications for the sum of $255 million. The merger was officially finalized on April 3, 2007.〔(PrairieWave change causes e-mail glitches » RapidCityJournal.com )〕 On January 4, 2008, Knology closed its acquisition of Graceba Total Communications, Inc. in Dothan, Alabama. In January 2011, Knology completed the acquisition of Sunflower Broadband in Lawrence, Kansas. On April 18, 2012 Knology was acquired by WOW!〔(Wow Buys Knology for $750 Million )〕 and the Knology domain is used for its DNS backbone. ==Areas of service== *Athens, Alabama *Harvest, Alabama *Huntsville, Alabama *Lanett, Alabama *Madison, Alabama *Montgomery, Alabama *Valley, Alabama *Prattville, Alabama *Dothan, Alabama *Decatur, Alabama *Augusta, Georgia *Columbus, Georgia *West Point, Georgia *Panama City, Florida *Pinellas County, Florida *Charleston, South Carolina *Knoxville, Tennessee *Lawrence, Kansas *Rapid City, South Dakota *Sioux Falls, South Dakota *Watertown, South Dakota 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Knology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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