Former type private Defunct 2004 Successor AT&T Wireless Services Parent organizations BellSouth, AT&T Mobility | Industry Wireless Services Founded 1984 Ceased operations 2004 | |
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Products GPRS, GSM, TDMA, AMPS, Two way messaging Website www.bellsouth.com/wireless Headquarters Atlanta, Georgia, United States Predecessor Advanced Mobile Phone Service | ||
BellSouth Mobility, LLC headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, was a BellSouth subsidiary.
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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.
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 Cingular Wireless network, and the BellSouth branding was dropped; however, the company continued to exist as an operating subsidiary.
In 2004, following Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services, BellSouth Mobility ceased to exist when it was legally merged into New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC, the renamed former operating subsidiary of AT&T Wireless Services.