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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.
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.
Verizon Communications Inc. (/ v ə ˈ r aɪ z ən / və-RY-zən), is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City. [3] It is the world's second-largest telecommunications company by revenue and its mobile network is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 114.2 million subscribers (and roughly 17th largest globally) as of September 30, 2024.
For a time, it was the second-largest long-distance telephone company in the United States, after AT&T. WorldCom grew largely by acquiring other telecommunications companies, including MCI Communications in 1998, and filed for bankruptcy in 2002 after an accounting scandal , in which several executives, including CEO Bernard Ebbers , were ...
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.
In 2005, SBC acquired former parent AT&T Corporation and took the AT&T name, becoming AT&T Inc. In 2006, BellSouth was acquired by AT&T Inc. In 2008, Verizon sold its operations in northern New England to FairPoint Communications; In 2011, Qwest was acquired by CenturyLink, which subsequently changed its name to Lumen Technologies in 2020.
San Luis Obispo County, California (SLO Cellular) — Sold to AT&T, service ends Jan 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 Southcentral ...
Verizon New York Corporate HQ, 1095 Avenue of the Americas NYNEX Corporation / ˈ n aɪ n ɛ k s / was an American telephone company that served five states of New England ( Maine , Massachusetts , New Hampshire , Rhode Island and Vermont ) as well as most of the state of New York from January 1, 1984 to August 14, 1997.