TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: T-Mobile, was: Verizon, GTE, etc, etc

T-Mobile, was: Verizon, GTE, etc, etc

Bob Goudreau (BobGoudreau@notchur.damn.biz)
Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:01:43 -0500

Danny Burstein wrote:

[PAT, please anonymize my email address as always.]

>> Voicestream changed into T-Mobile. I understand that there was even a
>> name used prior to being called Voicestream but I can't remember what
>> it was.

> There was also Western Wireless in the Pacific Northwest.

> Western merged/bought up Omnipoint as well as a few small facilities
> here and there.

> Soon afterwards, Deutche [sic] Telecom [sic] (German based) bought
> up Western and added more licenses.

The real story is a bit more convoluted than that. Various sources on
the web, such as
http://www.businessweek.com/it100/2005/company/WWCA.htm and
http://www.publicintegrity.org/telecom/analysis/CompanyProfile.aspx?HOID=911
shed more light on it.

In brief, Voicestream was spun off from Western Wireless in 1999. Deutsche
Telekom later purchased Voicestream and rebranded it as T-Mobile.
Meanwhile, Western Wireless itself continued to exist as a regional carrier
until being acquired earlier this year by Alltel.

Bob Goudreau
Cary, NC

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