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[52] [53] On September 18, 2011, AT&T first launched LTE service in 5 U.S. metropolitan areas, with plans for serving 15 markets by the end of the year. AT&T's LTE rollout was noticeably slower than that of its competitor, Verizon Wireless, with the company stating that its then-proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA would be necessary. [57]
Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the United States lease wireless telephone and data service from the four major cellular carriers in the country—AT&T Mobility, Boost Mobile, T-Mobile US, and Verizon—and offer various levels of free and/or paid talk, text and data services to their customers.
According to downdetector.com, a website tracking mobile service functionality, AT&T mobile service outages were being reported around 3:43 a.m., beginning with more than 2,500 customers affected.
The AT&T Wireless brand was retired by Cingular on April 26, 2005, six months after the close of the merger. This was per a pre-spinoff agreement with AT&T Corp. that stated that if AT&T Wireless was to be bought by a competitor, the rights to the name AT&T Wireless and the use of the AT&T name in wireless phone service would revert to AT&T Corp.
Comparing plans, Verizon offers its unlimited one-phone plan for $75 a month ($25 more than Consumer Cellular), AT&T’s version of this plan is $65.99 a month ($15.99 more), and T-Mobile’s plan ...
Acquired by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility. [39] AT&T Wireless Services: GSM: EDGE: 22: October 2004: Acquired by Cingular Wireless, which later rebranded to AT&T Mobility. [40] Big Sky Mobile: GSM: EDGE: Unknown: 2017: Sold spectrum licenses to AT&T and T-Mobile and exited the business. [41] Blaze Wireless: GSM, UMTS: EDGE, HSPA+, LTE ...
AT&T was founded as Bell Telephone Company by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson and Gardiner Greene Hubbard after Bell's patenting of the telephone in 1875. [21] By 1881, Bell Telephone Company had become the American Bell Telephone Company. [22]
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