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Metro was established in 1994 as General Wireless, Inc., by Roger Linquist and Malcolm Lorang. [4] PCS referred to the industry term, Personal Communications Service. Its service was first launched in 2002. [5] [6] As of February 2005, MetroPCS had about 1.5 million subscribers in the country. [7]
Pocket Communications was a PCS CDMA 1xRTT provider of unlimited cellular phone service based in San Antonio, Texas, United States. [1] It offered service plans similar to those of Cricket Communications and MetroPCS with unlimited local phone and messaging service on a month to month basis with no contract. Its founder Paul Posner started as a ...
MetroPCS (NYS: PCS) took an earnings hit in the first quarter, no doubt about it, with profits dropping precipitously over last year's numbers by 63%. The first quarter is supposed to provide the ...
T-Mobile U.S. traces its roots to the 1994 establishment of VoiceStream Wireless PCS as a subsidiary of Western Wireless Corporation.After its spin off from parent Western Wireless on May 3, 1999, VoiceStream Wireless was purchased by Deutsche Telekom AG in 2001 for $35 billion and renamed T-Mobile USA, Inc., in July 2002.
In ITU Region 2, PCS are provided in the '1900 MHz' band (specifically 1850–1995 MHz). [5] This frequency band was designated by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Industry Canada to be used for new wireless services to alleviate capacity caps inherent in the original Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) and Digital AMPS (D-AMPS) cellular networks in the '850 MHz ...
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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.