- BellSouth Mobility
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company_name = BellSouth Mobility, LLC
company_
company_type = Holding ofAT&T Mobility
foundation =1984
defunct =2000 (renamed Cingular Wireless) location =Atlanta , Georgia, USA
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industry =Wireless Services
company_slogan =
products = HSDPA, UMTS,W-CDMA , GPRS, GSM, TDMA, AMPS, Two way messaging
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homepage = [http://www.bellsouth.com/wireless 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 byBellSouth Wireless Data , and used the pre-2.5GMobitex standard [ [http://www.rim.net/news/press/2000/pr-28_11_2000.shtml] Blackberry available for BWD, which used [http://www.blackberry.com/products/handhelds/rim950.shtml Mobitex] ] .History
BellSouth Mobility was a
mobile phone network operated by the American landline telephone companyBellSouth . It was founded in1984 during the breakup of AT&T, which included dividingAdvanced Mobile Phone Service, Inc. among theBaby Bells . It ranAMPS andD-AMPS across most of the territory covered by the BellSouth landline company. In2000 , it became part of theCingular Wireless network, and the BellSouth branding was dropped.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.References
External links
* [http://www.bellsouth.com/wireless/ BellSouth Mobility]
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