text: The Company reports revenues as wireless, wireline and other revenues. These revenue classifications are defined as 
  follows: Wireless revenues are made up of the Personal Communications Company (a PCS Affiliate of Sprint), and the 
  Mobile Company. Wireline revenues include the following subsidiary revenues in the financial results: Telephone 
  Company, Network Company, Cable Television Company, and the Long Distance Company. Other revenues are 
  comprised of the revenues of ShenTel Service Company, the Leasing Company, ShenTel Communications Company 
  and the Holding Company. For additional information on the Company's business segments, see Note 14 to audited 
  consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this report. 
  
  The Company participates in the telecommunications industry, which requires substantial investment in fixed assets or 
  plant. This significant capital requirement may preclude profitability during the initial years of operation. The strategy 
  of the Company is to grow and diversify the business by adding services and geographic areas that can leverage the 
  existing plant, but to do so within the opportunities and constraints presented by the industry. For many years the 
  Company focused on reducing reliance on the regulated telephone operation, which up until 1981 was the primary 
  business within the Company. This initial diversification was concentrated in other wireline businesses, such as the 
  cable television and regional fiber facility businesses, but in 1990 the Company made its first significant investment in 
  the wireless sector through its former investment in the Virginia 10 RSA Limited partnership. By 1998, revenues of 
  the regulated telephone operation had decreased to 59.2% of total revenues. In that same year more than 76.6% of the 
  Company’s total revenue was generated by wireline operations, and initiatives were already underway to make wireless 
  a more significant contributor to total revenues. 