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Also in 2008, Verizon struck a deal to buy Alltel for $5.9 billion in equity while assuming $22.2 billion worth of debt. [23] [24] The deal was finalized on January 9, 2009, again making Verizon Wireless the country's largest cellphone network. [23] As per the agreement, Verizon sold rural wireless properties across 18 states to AT&T.
Cellular One is the trademarked brand name that licenses services (radio frequencies for telecommunications) used by several cellular service providers in the United States. The brand was sold to Trilogy Partners by AT&T in 2008 shortly after AT&T had completed its acquisition of Dobson Communications. Cellular One was originally the trade name ...
Alltel was a landline, wireless and general telecommunications services provider, primarily based in the United States.Before its wireless division was acquired by Verizon Wireless and AT&T, Alltel provided cellular service to 34 states and had approximately 13 million subscribers.
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.
TracFone Wireless, Inc. (TFWI) is an American wireless prepaid service provider.It is a mobile virtual network operator offering prepaid and no-contract services on the Verizon network under multiple brands, including TracFone, Straight Talk Wireless, Total Wireless, Simple Mobile, SafeLink Wireless, and Walmart Family Mobile (in partnership with Walmart).
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.
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. [22] By 1881, Bell Telephone Company had become the American Bell Telephone Company. [23]
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 ...