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The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), lists approximately 30 facilities-based wireless service providers in the United States as members. Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) has over 100 members. [ 1 ]
United States Cellular was founded as a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems Inc. [3] (TDS) and incorporated on December 23, 1983. began operations in Knoxville, Tennessee (June), and Tulsa, Oklahoma (August). The company went public in 1988 where United States Cellular adopted USM as its ticker symbol on the American Stock Exchange. [4]
Users can switch carriers while keeping number and prefix (so prefixes are not tightly coupled to a specific carrier). If there is only 32.. followed by any other, shorter number, like 32 51 724859, this is the number of a normal phone, not a mobile. 46x: Join (discontinued mobile phone service provider) [3] 47x: Proximus (or other) 48x
Telephone and Data Systems, (through its subsidiary TDS) serves mainly rural areas in parts of 36 states. [3] Altafiber, which serves the greater Cincinnati area, and Hawaii due to its acquisition of Hawaiian Telcom [4] was not included in the Bell System breakup of 1984 because the former AT&T held only a minority stake in that company.
Former TX-10, LLC and Central Louisiana Cellular, LLC (MTPCS) dba Cellular One; Montana network (former Chinook Wireless) shut down in 2014 [85] [8] [112] 310: 580: Inland Cellular Telephone Company: Operational: CDMA2000: Former PCS One [82] [108] 310: 590: Verizon Wireless: Unknown: GSM 850 / GSM 1900: Former Western Wireless Corporation, [89 ...
A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a landline telephone subscriber station connected to a telephone line or to a wireless electronic telephony device, such as a radio telephone or a mobile telephone, or to other devices for data transmission via the public switched telephone network (PSTN), or other public and private networks.
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.
The Cellular band occupies 824–849 MHz and 869–894 MHz ranges. To issue cellular licenses, the FCC divided the U.S. into 734 geographic markets called Cellular Market Areas (CMAs) and divided the 40 MHz of spectrum into two, 20 MHz amounts referred to as channel blocks; channel block A and channel block B.