Velocita Wireless is a national

wireless Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer. The most ...

-telecommunications service provider that is based in Woodbridge,

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. Known by several names over the years, Velocita Wireless has been in existence for over 17 years as the operator of the

Mobitex Mobitex is an OSI based open standard, national public access wireless packet-switched data network. Mobitex puts great emphasis on safety and reliability with its use by military, police, firefighters and ambulance services. It was developed in t ...

network in the United States. Previously known as Cingular Interactive, L.P., BellSouth Wireless Data and prior to that RAM Mobile Data, Velocita Wireless carved a market for itself with the acquisition of the

network from Cingular and rebranding itself overall as Velocita in 2004.

History

In 2001, the company's Mobitex network proved to be effective in communications in

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during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Most other cellular and wireless telecommunications services were knocked-out or overloaded in

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. The effectiveness of the network led to Velocita developing a small 'following' amongst emergency responders in the United States. In 2006, Velocita Wireless became a strategic buyout for the

Sprint Nextel Corporation Sprint Corporation was an American telecommunications company. Before it merged with 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. The co ...

. Based in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Sprint was overcoming various shortcomings of the

NEXTEL Communications Nextel Communications, Inc. was an American wireless service operator that merged with and ceased to exist as a subsidiary of Sprint Corporation, which would later be bought by T-Mobile US and folded into that company. Nextel in Brazil, and forme ...

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(iDEN) which it acquired in 2005. The spectrum holdings of Velocita were intended to supplement Nextel's frequencies in the 900 MHz band and help relieve expected congestion in its network's 800 MHz band. On July 2, 2007 Velocita Wireless was bought by United Wireless. In 2010, Velocita Wireless emerged from internal restructuring to focus its narrow-band nationwide wireless data networks on machine-to-machine

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solutions for Point-of-Sale credit card transactions, utility/energy smart grid applications, automatic vehicle location (AVL), home and business security, and wireless vending.

References

External links

*{{Official website, http://www.velocitawireless.com/ Sprint Corporation