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SPRINT PCS is the third largest US wireless carrier, and the third largest US long distance phone company. What you may not know is how the company, SPRINT PCS, came to be? Below is a history of the phone companies, that over the years due to mergers, growth and buyouts, became the single largest company we have today.

In 1986, GTE Sprint was merged with GTE Telenet, US Telecom, Uninet, and ISACOMM to form US Sprint. This was a partnership owned by GTE and United Telecom. In 1989 United Telecom purchased controlling interest in US Sprint. In 1991 United Telecom completed its acquisition of US Sprint. That same year United Telecom changed its name to Sprint due in large part to the increased brand recognition of Sprint, as a result of the successful Candice Bergen "Dime Lady" advertisement campaign.

In 1983 United Telecom's Telespectrum began offering cellular telephone services in United's territories. In 1988 Telespectrum was sold to Centel to fund United's purchase of an additional 30% of US Sprint. This purchase gave United operational control of US Sprint.

In 1993, Sprint acquired Centel, which allowed Sprint to provide local service in a total of 18 states and put them back in the wireless. In 1994, Sprint spun off their cellular operations as 360 Communications for regulatory reasons in order to start up their PCS spectrum service. 360 Communications was subsequently acquired by Alltel in 1998.

In late 1994 and early 1995, Sprint via Sprint Spectrum (a joint venture between Sprint and several cable companies), acquired near nationwide Personal Communications Service spectrum. Later in 1995, the company began to offer wireless service under the Sprint PCS brand in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, it was the very first PCS-based wireless network in the Americas. Although the current Sprint PCS network utilizes CDMA, the Washington area network was based on GSM. Eventually Sprint converted that network to CDMA, then sold the GSM infrastructure in 1999 to Omnipoint (which eventually became part of T-Mobile USA)

So where does Cellular International.com fit into this picture. We fill a market that the large cellular providers do not. We work using any phone, not just the ones that SPRINT PCS sells. Two, we offer service in a variety of ways, TextCall and Web Call. Most of all, we sell our services for a fraction of the cost that SPRINT PCS does. For those customers that find SPRINT PCS rates to be more expensive than they wish to pay, Cellular International.com can give low rates, with good service, and helps customers save money. Cellular International may not have the size and power of SPRINT PCS, but we still offer very good and reliable service, and is used by thousands of customer’s worldwide everyday. We offer a full refund if not absolutely satisfied. Guaranteed. Join us today.

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