AT&T Wireless
AT&T Wireless Corporation is the third-largest wireless telephone carrier in the United States, based in Redmond, Washington, and trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol, "AWE." Formerly part of AT&T Corp., as of January 1, 2004, the largest single shareholder of AT&T Wireless was Japan's NTT DoCoMo.Its network is a mix of AMPS, TDMA, and GSM/GPRS/EDGE technology, and is working towards a pure GSM/GPRS/EDGE network.
On February 13, 2004, AT&T Wireless accepted bids for acqusition of the wireless company, with European carrier Vodafone and American competitor Cingular as the top two bidders. Cingular emerged victorious February 17 by agreeing to pay more than $41 billion to acquire AT&T Wireless.
AT&T Wireless was formerly a subsidiary of AT&T Corp, and before that it was McCaw Cellular.