Nixa, Missouri-based broadband communications firm Applied Cellular Technology Inc has agreed to acquire Toronto, Ontario- based Commstar Ltd for around $10m, the exact purchase price depending on long-term debt adjustments. Applied will combine Commstar’s operations with the business of City Dial Network, a subsidiary of Canadian Network Services Inc, which it acquired early in January. The combination should add around $22.5m in sales of communications products and services to the telecommunications industry. Applied, which is making its business out of the transition from analog to digital, is in the middle of an agressive growth by acquisition strategy. Last year it acquired four companies and pulled out of a fifth, with Able Telecom Holding Corp, at the last minute (CI No 3,311), Commstar is the third company to be acquired this year.
