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BellSouth Mobility, LLC headquartered in
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, Georgia, was a BellSouth subsidiary. BellSouth Mobility operated wireless networks using many different wireless communication standards. The most widely used of these technologies is called
Digital AMPS IS-54 and IS-136 are second-generation ( 2G) mobile phone systems, known as Digital AMPS (D-AMPS), and a further development of the North American 1G mobile system Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS). It was once prevalent throughout the America ...
, or D-AMPS. Data services were provided by BellSouth Wireless Data, and used the pre-2.5G
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standard.
Blackberry available for BWD, which use
Mobitex


History

BellSouth Mobility was a
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network operated by the
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landline telephone company BellSouth. It was founded in 1984 during the breakup of
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, which included dividing
Advanced Mobile Phone Service, Inc. Advanced Mobile Phone Service, Inc. was a subsidiary of AT&T prior to the Bell System Divestiture. Abbreviated AMPS, the company was created in 1978 to build and operate the new Advanced Mobile Phone System, also abbreviated AMPS. AMPS was develop ...
among the Baby Bells. It ran AMPS and D-AMPS across most of the territory covered by the BellSouth landline company. In 2000, it became part of the Cingular Wireless 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 IS-95 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