BellSouth Mobility, LLC headquartered in

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, was a

BellSouth BellSouth, LLC (stylized as ''BELLSOUTH'' and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation) was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after ...

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

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History

BellSouth Mobility was a

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network operated by the American landline telephone company

. It was founded in 1984 during the breakup of

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, which included dividing Advanced Mobile Phone Service, Inc. among the

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. It ran AMPS and

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across most of the territory covered by the BellSouth landline company. In 2000, it became part of the

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network, and the BellSouth branding was dropped; however, the company continued to exist as an operating subsidiary. In 2004, following Cingular's acquisition of

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, 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.

Facts

* BellSouth Mobility used D-AMPS as opposed to Sprint and Verizon's

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technology. Despite this, BellSouth Mobility offered Sprint and Verizon customers roaming onto their older AMPS network.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bellsouth Mobility AT&T Defunct mobile phone companies of the United States Defunct telecommunications companies of the United States American companies established in 1983 Telecommunications companies established in 1983 Telecommunications companies disestablished in 2004 1983 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) American companies disestablished in 2004