1910 - Company organizes under the name of Pulaski Merchant & Farmers Telephone Company to provide telephone service in Pulaski, Wisconsin. 100 shares of stock at $50 per share authorized. Western Electric switchboard purchased for $158.33.
1919 - Company pays mortgage on original building in full.
1922 - Company purchases New Kellogg switch for $1,143.
1923 - Company elects Daniel E. Riordan to board. First annual dividend declared.
1924 - Company elects Daniel E. Riordan to President.
1925 - Company elects Florence B. Riordan, already active in day-to-day operations, to the Board of Directors.
1925 - Company names Florence B. Riordan as Secretary –Treasurer. She later becomes the first woman to address the Wisconsin State Telephone Association.
1927 - Company employs Robert E. Riordan.
Because of the Great Depression and the World War II history during this time was not well kept and remains a bit of a mystery.
1950 - Company names Ray J. Riordan as Secretary-Treasurer.
1951 - Company establishes dial office in Krakow, Wisconsin enabling future expansion.
1952 - Company elects Robert E. Riordan to President.
1954 - Company declares first quarterly dividend.
1956 - Company installs 1,000th telephone.
1958 - Company establishes Mill Center, Wisconsin office. Begins extended area calling to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
1965 - Company acquires the Oneida Telephone Company from Bill Morgan and installs a dial office to begin offering 24-hour telephone service to Oneida customers.
1968 - Company merges with Oneida Telephone Company to form Northeast Telephone Company.
1975 - Company names Patrick D. Riordan as General Manager.
1977 - Company employs Robert H. Riordan.
1982 - Company forms Northeast Communications of Wisconsin, Inc. with Northeast Telephone Company as a subsidiary.
1982 - Company forms NET Cable, Inc as a subsidiary of Northeast Communications of Wisconsin, Inc. to provide cable television service.
1986 - Company forms Cellcom as a subsidiary of Northeast Communications of Wisconsin, Inc. to provide cellular service in Brown County, Wisconsin.
1989 - Cellcom expands cellular service to Northeast Wisconsin in partnership with other local telephone companies.
1991 - Company names Patrick D. Riordan to succeed Robert E. Riordan as president.
1993 - Cellcom offers cellular service to north central Wisconsin and Iowa.
1994 - Company forms NetNet, Inc. as a subsidiary of Northeast Communications of Wisconsin, Inc. and becomes the first commercial Internet service provider in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
1996 - The Company, along with its partners, participates in FCC auctions and wins seven licenses for Personal Communications Services (PCS) in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan
1996 - Northeast Telephone’s 7,000th telephone installed.
1997 - Company forms Nsight Long Distance and Local Nsight as a subsidiary of Northeast Communications of Wisconsin, Inc. to provide long distance service. Company builds two self-healing fiber optic rings around Green Bay, Wisconsin in order to provide broadband service.
1997 - Cellcom activates 100,000th cellular phone.
1997 - Robert E. Riordan passes away at 88 years of age. (Nov. 24th)
1998 - Company participates in FCC auction for Local Multipoint Distribution Services (LMDS) and wins 17 licenses to offer wireless broadband service to Northeastern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
1998 - The Company acquires 100% of the assets of St. Paul Tower Company and Metro Aerial Structures, Inc.
1998 - Company declares 75th year of consecutive dividends.
1998 - Company acquires majority interest of the Wausau cellular market.
1999 - Company acquires six additional PCS licenses in FCC auctions.
1999 - Company employs Brighid Riordan and Michael Harper who become fourth generation Riordans active in day-to-day operations.
1999 - Company begins doing business as Nsight.
2001 - Cellcom activates 200,000th cellular phone.
2001 - Northeast Telephone Company and NetNet begin offering DSL to residential and business customers.
2001 - Nsight forms Nsighttel Billing to manage its in-house billing.
2002 - Nsight expands PCS service to six additional Iowa markets.
2002 - Cellcom offers text messaging.
2003 - Restructuring process prompts the sale of the cellular markets in Iowa to Midwest Wireless. Company points its efforts toward offering converged telecommunications services in its Wisconsin and Upper Michigan footprint. Almost simultaneous with this transaction, the company purchases 100% ownership of the Metro Southwest partnership which controls PCS markets including Appleton, Oshkosh, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Manitowoc and Rhinelander in Wisconsin and Iron Mountain and Ironwood, Michigan.
2004 - More than one million (1,014,479) calls processed in one day at the Green Bay wireless switch. (July 2)
2006 - Company achieves $100 million in consolidated revenues.
2006 - Micki Harper, board member and secretary, passes away at the age of 64. (Sept. 14th)
2007 - In May we exceeded 100 million minutes in one month on the wireless switch for the first time.
2007 - In September, Nsight purchases Bayland Telephone in Abrams, WI. Cellcom purchases PCS spectrum in the Duluth BTA. This expands Cellcom’s footprint throughout northwest Wisconsin and northern Minnesota.
2008 - Cellcom turns on the Midwest’s first green cell site. The alternative-energy cell site, located near Antigo, Wisconsin, is activated on Earth Day, April 22.
2008 -The billionth text message is sent through Cellcom’s network.
2008 - Cellcom uses alternative energies to provide lifesaving communications to Chambers Island in Door County. This is the company’s second renewable energy cell site.
2008 - Cellcom launches broadband Internet to Door County residents, and is the only telecommunications provider in the geographic area to roll out this high-speed wireless network.
2008 - Patrick D. Riordan receives the 2008 Outstanding Achievement Award for his extraordinary contributions to the wireless industry and the Rural Cellular Association (RCA).
2008 - Cellcom is declared an official Wireless Priority Service (WPS) carrier and is the tenth carrier in the US to receive WPS certification since the service was introduced in 2000. During an emergency, WPS improves connection capabilities for a limited number of authorized national security and emergency service personnel cell phone users.
2009 - Glas, the green coffeehouse, opens in Sturgeon Bay.
2009 - Cellcom signs singer-songwriter and pianist Eli Mattson as the company spokesperson.
2009 - Bayland Telephone celebrates 100 years of service on April 26.
2009 - Cellcom receives the first Femtocell Industry Award for significant progress or commercial launch by a small carrier at the Femtocells World Summit in London.
2009 -Cellcom Green Bay Marathon celebrates its 10th anniversary on May 17 with recording- breaking participation and charitable donations. Almost 10,000 runners and walkers participate in the event, which generates over $70,835 in proceeds for its three charity partners. Contributions to local charities for the marathon’s 10-year history total over $320,000.
2009 - Cellcom receives the second annual Brown County Ethics in Business Award.