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At the time of the merger, T-Mobile had about 32 million subscribers, to which MetroPCS added around 9 million. [18] In 2012, there was a series of armed robberies in Metro stores which was attributed to low security measures. [19] In the same year, T-Mobile and Metro became some of the earliest companies to offer unlimited data plans. [20]
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.
T-Mobile USA received a portion of the 1.3 million largely warrantless law enforcement requests for subscriber information (including text messages and phone location data) made in 2011, but refused to state how many requests it received. [251] It did say that in the last decade, the number of requests have increased by 12 to 16 percent annually.
Metro: Metro by T-Mobile: Operational: MVNO: Former MetroPCS; CDMA2000 1900 / CDMA2000 1700 shut down in 2015; LTE 1700 merged with T-Mobile US [128] 311: 670: Pine Belt Wireless: Pine Belt Cellular Inc. Operational: LTE 700: Alabama; [128] CDMA shut down [189] 311: 680: GreenFly LLC: Unknown: GSM 1900: Iowa [128] [75] 311: 690: TeleBEEPER of ...
Epic PCS: GSM: EDGE: Unknown: 2015: Acquired by United Wireless and PTCI. [58] Farmers Mutual Telephone Company: CDMA2000: EV-DO, LTE: Unknown: 2018: Sold spectrum licenses to Verizon Wireless and Eltopia Communications and became a Verizon Wireless MVNO. Fuego Wireless: LTE: Unknown: 2016: Sold network and spectrum licenses to AT&T and ...
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 ...
T-Mobile, specifically the T-Mobile US subsidiary in the United States, holds the naming rights to T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip near Las Vegas, to T-Mobile Center in Kansas City and to T-Mobile Park in Seattle. [57] Deutsche Telekom, has served as the kit sponsor for German Bundesliga club Bayern Munich since 2002.
The additional demands for PCS and cellular phone numbers helped necessitate the 831/408 area code split, the 650/415 split, and the earlier 510/415 split. Part of the previous dialing plan included a mass calling prefix for radio station contests, introduced in the 1960s because some contests put unacceptable loads on the Bay Area's telephone ...