Cell phone companies in United States

United States > Telecommunications

Main article: List of United States mobile phone companies

The country has 322.9 million subscribers in total, or a 103% penetration rate. [105] (June 2011)

The country's telecom regulator is the FCC.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Verizon Wireless CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A
700 MHz LTE		 107.7 (September 2011)
 Verizon Communications (55%)
Vodafone Group plc (45%)
2 AT&T Mobility
 850/ 1900 MHz GSM, GPRS, EDGE
850/ 1900 MHz UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA, HSPA+
700 MHz LTE		 100.71 (September 2011)
 AT&T
3 Sprint Nextel
•Includes Sprint Network, Nextel Network, Boost Mobile,
Virgin Mobile USA, and Assurance Wireless.		 Sprint Network
CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, 1x Advanced, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A
WiMAX
LTE
Nextel Network (Being Shutdown)
iDEN, WiDEN		 53.41 (September 2011) Sprint Nextel Corporation
4 T-Mobile USA
 UMA
1900 MHz GSM, GPRS, EDGE
1700/ 2100 MHz UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA, HSPA+ (42 Mbit/s)
LTE (Planned 2013)		 33.7111 (September 2011) Deutsche Telekom
5 TracFone Wireless
•Includes NET10, Straight Talk, SafeLink Wireless		 CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT
GSM, GPRS		 19.2691 (September 2011) América Móvil (98.2%)
6 Clearwire
•Includes CLEAR.		 WiMAX
TDD-LTE (Planned 2013)		 9.5411 [106] (September 2011) Sprint Nextel Corporation (51%)
Comcast (9%)
7 MetroPCS CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A
1700 MHz LTE		 9.3 (December 2011) MetroPCS, Inc.
8 Cricket CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, 1x Advanced, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A
LTE		 5.934 [107] (December 2011) Leap Wireless
9 U.S. Cellular CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A
LTE		 5.891 (December 2011) Telephone and Data Systems (82%)
10 Qwest Wireless CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A		 0.982 [108] (June 2010) Qwest Communications
11 C Spire Wireless CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A
LTE (Planned) September 2012		 0.800 [109] (January 2010) Cellular South
12 Alltel CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A		 0.5822 [110] (December 2011) Atlantic Tele-Network
13 Cincinnati Bell Wireless GSM, GPRS, EDGE HSPA HSPA+ 0.459 [111] (December 2011) Cincinnati Bell, Inc. (100%)
14 nTelos
•Includes Frawg		 CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A		 0.4145 [112] (December 2011) nTelos Holdings Corp.
15 SouthernLINC iDEN, WiDEN 0.275 [113] (April 2008) Southern Company
16 Movida Wireless CdmaOne 0.217 [114] (March 2008) Movida Communications, Inc.
17 GCI Wireless
•Includes GCI Network, and Alaska DigiTel Network		 GCI Network
GSM, GPRS, EDGE
UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA, HSPA+
Alaska DigiTel Network
CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A		 0.1312 [115] (June 2010) General Communication
18 Bluegrass Cellular CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A
LTE (Planned)		 0.130 [116] (May 2005) Bluegrass Cellular, Inc,
19 Alaska Communications Systems CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A
LTE (Planned)		 0.1268 [117] (June 2010) Alaska Communications Systems
  1. AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, Tracfone, and Clearwire numbers include Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands subscribers.
  2. Number of retail customers (postpaid and prepaid) + reseller customers.

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