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In 1992, Centel was acquired by Sprint, and Central of Texas began doing business under the Sprint name, but retained its legal name. In 2006, the company was spun off into Embarq when Sprint Nextel spun off its local telephone operations. [2] The company did business as CenturyLink from 2009-2022, following the acquisition of Embarq by CenturyTel.
In November 1995, the company began to offer wireless service under the Sprint Spectrum brand in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. [44] This was the first commercial Personal Communications Service (PCS) network in the United States. [44] Although the Sprint PCS service was CDMA, the original Washington-area network used GSM. [44]
In 1993, Sprint merged with Centel, [8] which allowed Sprint to provide local service in a total of 18 states and put them back in the wireless business. In late 1994 and early 1995, Sprint via Sprint Spectrum (a joint venture between Sprint and several cable companies) acquired near nationwide PCS spectrum.
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The following companies were acquired from Embarq, which was formed in 2006 by the spin-off of the local telephone operations of Sprint Corporation (previously named United Telephone). It also includes companies formerly owned by Centel which was purchased by Sprint in 1993. CenturyLink of Florida, Inc. CenturyLink of Minnesota, Inc.
A wireless home phone service is a service that allows a regular wired telephone to connect to a cellular network, as if it were a mobile phone. [1] [2] It is an example of a wireless last mile connection to the public switched telephone network, also known as a wireless local loop.