BellSouth Mobility
| BellSouth Mobility, LLC | |
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| Type | Holding of AT&T Mobility |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Industry | Wireless Services |
| Products | HSDPA, UMTS, W-CDMA, GPRS, GSM, TDMA, AMPS, Two way messaging |
| Website | www.bellsouth.com/wireless |
BellSouth Mobility, LLC headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, was a BellSouth subsidiary.
BellSouth Mobility operated wireless networks using many different wireless communication standards. The most widely used of these technologies is called Digital AMPS, or D-AMPS. Data services were provided by BellSouth Wireless Data, and used the pre-2.5G Mobitex standard[1].
History
BellSouth Mobility was a mobile phone network operated by the American landline telephone company BellSouth. It was founded in
1984 during the breakup of AT&T,
which included dividing Advanced Mobile Phone Service, Inc. among the
Baby Bells. It ran AMPS and D-AMPS across most of the territory covered
by the BellSouth landline company. In 2000, it became part of the
As now part of AT&T Mobility, BSM is known as BellSouth Mobility, LLC d/b/a Cingular Wireless.
Facts
- BellSouth Mobility used D-AMPS as opposed to Sprint and Verizon's IS-95 technology. Despite this, BellSouth Mobility offered Sprint and Verizon customers roaming on to their older AMPS network.
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