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Cingular used to be called.....

Bell South around me but its just the Bell company.

They are acutally looking into buying AT&T wireless though, if they do that it will be by far the largest wireless company out there.
 
IIRC

Bell-Atlantic -> Verizon
CellularOne -> Cingular
Omnipoint -> Voicestream -> TMobile
Sprint -> Sprint
AT&T -> AT&T
 
In the midwest Cingular used to be known as Southwestern Bell wireless

Cellular One became Verizon

Aerial became voicestream, and voicestream is now T-Mobile
 
it techincally used to be called a lot of things as Cingular is now the child of SBC which is the resulting company from a pile of Bells... Ameritech, Bell South, Pac Bell etc etc....

So it never was "one" company in the past. Its now just a bastard child of many telcos, now under 1 roof.
 
Originally posted by: Unkempt1
In the midwest Cingular used to be known as Southwestern Bell wireless

Cellular One became Verizon

Aerial became voicestream, and voicestream is now T-Mobile
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GTE became Verizon
 
- Which phone company? There are hundreds of them. And they all keep changing their names.
- Ahhh, I think we're with Comquack.
- Nooo, I think it's Niagular.
- Nooo, last week they became Vertiquom.
 
Originally posted by: Homerboy
it techincally used to be called a lot of things as Cingular is now the child of SBC which is the resulting company from a pile of Bells... Ameritech, Bell South, Pac Bell etc etc....

So it never was "one" company in the past. Its now just a bastard child of many telcos, now under 1 roof.
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Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: Unkempt1
In the midwest Cingular used to be known as Southwestern Bell wireless

Cellular One became Verizon

Aerial became voicestream, and voicestream is now T-Mobile
Click to expand...

GTE became Verizon
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Perhaps in your area, but in the KC area, they were Cell One. Verizon is a merger of several different phone companies. Perhaps I should have qualified my statement by stating which part of the country I was referring to.
 
Originally posted by: Murpheeee
Originally posted by: Windogg
IIRC

Bell-Atlantic -> Verizon
CellularOne -> Cingular
Omnipoint -> Voicestream -> TMobile
Sprint -> Sprint
AT&T -> AT&T
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CellularOne - thats it! thanks
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Yeah...my phone's been with CellularOne -> BellSouth Mobility -> Cingular
 
cingular is anything that used to be owned by any company SBC swallowed, which is southwestern bell corp (SBC itself), ameritech, and pactel.

verizon was the merger of bell atlantic (which had just bought nynex) and gte. it also sucked up all of primeco, which i think was part owned by bellsouth. maybe bellsouth still has some interest in verizon's wireless division.
 
In my area Bellsouth had its own cellular company called BellSouth Mobility PCS that was purchased by Cingular a couple years back.
 
Originally posted by: Warthog912
Originally posted by: Windogg
IIRC

Bell-Atlantic -> Cingular
CellularOne -> Verizon
Omnipoint -> Voicestream -> TMobile
Sprint -> Sprint
AT&T -> AT&T
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*fixed*
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you broke it. bell-atlantic has nothing to do with cingular, it's 40% owned by bell south, different company, 60% by sbc. verizonwireless is a "CDMA network comprised of former Bell Atlantic, Airtouch, GTE and Primeco - primarily in the USA"
 
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