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Acronym Name Notes 1ESS: Number 1 Electronic Switching System (Alcatel-Lucent) US 1FR: Flat rate service: US 2G: second-generation mobile telephone 2.5G: Enhanced 2G mobile telephone 3G: third-generation mobile telephone 4ESS Number 4 Electronic Switching System (Alcatel-Lucent) 4WTS: Four-wire termination set: US 5ESS
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 ...
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.
It was not included in the Bell System breakup of 1984 because the original AT&T held only a minority stake in that company. Verizon, in addition to its role as a RBOC in its areas retained in the East, serves former GTE areas in Pennsylvania and Virginia. Verizon formerly served ex-GTE areas in parts of California, Florida and Texas before ...
Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the United States lease wireless telephone and data service from major carriers such as AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US, or Verizon Wireless, as well as regional carrier United States Cellular Corporation for resale. The largest operator of MVNOs is TracFone Wireless with over 25 million subscribers.
In February 2005, SBC announced its plans to acquire former parent company AT&T Corp. for over $16 billion. SBC took on the AT&T name upon merger closure on November 18, 2005. SBC began trading as AT&T Inc. on December 1, 2005, but began re-branding as early as November 21 of the same year. In 2006 AT&T Inc. purchased BellSouth. [3]
San Luis Obispo County, California (SLO Cellular) — Sold to AT&T, service ends January 17, 2011. Long Lines Wireless (Formerly Cellular One of Great Lakes of Iowa) - Acquired by AT&T July 2013; Edge Wireless (AT&T Affiliate merged into AT&T in April 2008). Edge Wireless served Northern California, Southern Oregon, Southeastern and ...
AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., formerly part of AT&T Corporation, was a wireless telephone carrier founded in 1987 in the United States, based in Redmond, Washington, and later traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol "AWE", as a separate entity from its former parent.