T-Mobile has been around in one form or another since the mid-1990s and is one of the US's oldest PCS companies (I think Sprint Spectrum's original GSM network predates Omnipoint and Voicestream, but only just.
It started off as Voicestream and Omnipoint, two PCS GSM carriers. They merged, and also bought out most of the independent GSM carriers in a merger spree that went on until the early part of this decade. Voicestream was then bought in 2002 by DT, and renamed to T-Mobile to be in line with DT's other mobile phone networks.
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squiggleslash @ Oct 3rd 2008 11:04AM
T-Mobile has been around in one form or another since the mid-1990s and is one of the US's oldest PCS companies (I think Sprint Spectrum's original GSM network predates Omnipoint and Voicestream, but only just.
It started off as Voicestream and Omnipoint, two PCS GSM carriers. They merged, and also bought out most of the independent GSM carriers in a merger spree that went on until the early part of this decade. Voicestream was then bought in 2002 by DT, and renamed to T-Mobile to be in line with DT's other mobile phone networks.