US Cellular

United States Cellular Corporation
legal form	Corporation
ISIN	US9116841084
founding	1983
Seat	Chicago , Illinois , USA
management	Kenneth R. Meyers (President & CEO)
Number of employees	approx. 5,800
sales	$ 3.89 billion
Branch	telecommunications
Website	www.uscellular.com
	Status: 2017

The United States Cellular Corporation , or US Cellular for short , is an American wireless communications company. With 5 million customers, it is one of the largest competitors by customer numbers in the US wireless market in the United States along with AT&T Wireless , T-Mobile US and Verizon Wireless .

US Cellular currently operates a CDMA2000 cellular network in 126 regional markets in 26 US states, with a primary geographic focus in the Northwest, Midwest and Northeast of the United States. The services offered are available to customers throughout the USA and internationally via roaming agreements with other network operators.

The company has operated an AMPS cellular network since it was founded in 1983 . By the year 2002, when the changeover to CDMA technology was initiated, the number of customers grew to 4 million (also through the acquisition of smaller local mobile network operators). From 2009, the CDMA network was upgraded with the EV-DO standard, which enables faster data transfers. LTE is available to users almost everywhere.

83% of the company is owned by Telephone and Data Systems . In the 1990s, when the US mobile communications market was heavily fragmented, the company also operated a GSM network under the name “Aerial Communications”, which was ultimately sold to Voicestream (the predecessor company of T-Mobile USA).

In 2013, Sprint Corporation took over parts of US Cellular.

Web links

Official website (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Official website - about us , accessed March 9, 2017
↑ ^a ^b TDS History ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Telephone and Data Systems. Retrieved May 8, 2011. @1@ 2

↑ 4G LTE. In: uscellular.com. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .

↑ US Cellular Customers: What You Should Know About The Sale To Sprint ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 17, 2013 @1@ 2

[USCellular-1] Official website - about us , accessed March 9, 2017

[tdshistory-2] TDS History ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Telephone and Data Systems. Retrieved May 8, 2011. @1@ 2

[3] 4G LTE. In: uscellular.com. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .

[4] US Cellular Customers: What You Should Know About The Sale To Sprint ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 17, 2013 @1@ 2