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Metro was established in 1994 as General Wireless, Inc., by Roger Linquist and Malcolm Lorang. [4] PCS referred to the industry term, Personal Communications Service. Its service was first launched in 2002. [5] [6] As of February 2005, MetroPCS had about 1.5 million subscribers in the country. [7]
radioshack.com. RadioShack (formerly written as Radio Shack) is an American electronics retailer which was established in 1921 as an amateur radio mail-order business. Its parent company, Radio Shack Corporation, was purchased by Tandy Corporation in 1962, shifting its focus from radio equipment to hobbyist electronic components.
GCI Communication Corp. (GCI) is a telecommunications corporation operating in Alaska. Through its own facilities and agreements with other providers, GCI provides cable television service, Internet access, wireline (networking), and cellular telephone service. It is a subsidiary of Colorado-based company Liberty Broadband, a company affiliated ...
GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982), [1] was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System. The company operated from 1926, with roots tracing further back than that, until 2000, when it was acquired by Bell Atlantic ; the combined company took ...
Sprint Corporation. Sprint Corporation was an American telecommunications company. Before being acquired by T-Mobile US on April 1, 2020, it was the fourth-largest mobile network operator in the United States, serving 54.3 million customers as of June 30, 2019. [2]
June 26, 1938. Elmwood Park, Illinois, U.S. Died. September 16, 2015 (aged 77) Dallas, Texas, U.S. Known for. Co-founder of Metro PCS. Roger D. Linquist (June 26, 1938 – September 16, 2015) [1] was an American businessman who was the chairman, chief executive officer and co-founder of Metro PCS. He also founded LJ Entertainment Inc in 1995.
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), also called 2.5G, [a] is a mobile data standard on the 2G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications (GSM). [1] Networks and mobile devices with GPRS started to roll out around the year 2001. [2] At the time of introduction it offered for the first time [b] seamless mobile data ...
Verizon Communications Inc. (/ v ə ˈ r aɪ z ən / və-RY-zən), is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City. [3] It is the world's second-largest telecommunications company (after China Mobile) by revenue and its mobile network is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 114.8 million subscribers as of March 31, 2024.