Revol (mobile phone company)

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Revol, Inc (Cleveland Unlimited, Inc. d/b/a)

Type	Private
Founded	2005
Headquarters	Independence, OH (Corporate headquarters)
Key people	Rocky Crossland, President & CEO
Industry	Communications Services
Products	Wireless using CDMA
Slogan	Welcome to the Revolution
Website	revol.us

Revol, Inc. is a heavily youth-oriented specialty regional wireless carrier based in Independence, Ohio which uses an urban revolution-based marketing campaign to attract its clients. The service features unlimited domestic voice calling and unlimited text and picture messaging to other Revol customers as its strengths.

[edit] History

Revol purchased Northcoast PCS in July 2004 from former owner Cablevision. The new owners, venture capital firms M/C Venture Partners and Columbia Capital have since invested significant dollars into the company to improve its network and service. The original Northcoast name was kept in service until 2005, when the Company relaunched with the Revol brand, new plans and many new towers. Currently, Revol has coverage in and around the cities of Indianapolis, Indiana, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio. As Revol is not a MVNO, it actually owns and operates its own tower system, through purchases of part of the Cricket network and its own holdings gained from Northcoast PCS. Recently it seems that it started to use some of Cricket's networks, and in essence is a MVNO in some of its coverage areas. Revol offers unlimited roaming on its own network for a fee, though currently roaming off-network is impossible.

Interestingly, while Revol is not a prepaid cellular carrier, it does not send out bills, though they can be requested as a nominal charge.

[edit] External links

Official sites:

http://www.revol.us Corporate website
http://www.teamrevol.us Team Revol (Public events)
http://www.megawireless.biz Parody site (redirects to Revol)

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