According to a profile of the company, T-Mobile International manages Deutsche Telekom's wireless operations (T-Mobile International Profile). These operations are inclusive of T-Mobile (UK), T-Mobile Deutschland, and T-Mobile Austria. Additionally, the profile explains that T-Mobile International also operates in the United States through the acquisition of VoiceStream Wireless and Powertel (T-Mobile International Profile). The company is now known as T-Mobile USA and has over 100 million subscribers in 12 markets (T-Mobile International Profile). These markets include Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, Macedonia, the UK, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and America (T-Mobile International Profile). Like Verizon, T-Mobile USA is responsible for providing telecommunications services. However, most of T-mobiles services are concentrated in the area of Mobile phones. T-Mobile came about in 1994 through the merger of General Cellular and Pacific Northwest Cellular (Company Information: Quick Facts). This company is then renamed Western Wireless and develops into a PCS provider for many western and southwestern states and the state of Hawaii. After a successful by Western Wireless experienced a successful public offering and the company became VoiceStream Wireless (Company Information: Quick Facts).

Today the company is an industry leader in mobile phone service (T-Mobile History). Although the company is relatively new when compared to many other companies it has experienced a great deal of success (T-Mobile History). This success includes the introduction of hotspots software in 2004 and the development of Smart Phones with Solutions in 2006 (T-Mobile History). The company operates throughout the world and has 29,000 employees (Company Information: Quick Facts). T-Mobile USA is currently headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Sprint/Nextel

Sprint Nextel came about as a merger of two great companies. Sprint was established in the 1899 by Cleyson Brown through the development of the Brown Telephone company (MileStone Evants Making Sprint History). By the 1970's the company had grown tremendously. The research asserts that in the 1980's when long distance service became open to competition; the company did all it could to take advantage of the opportunity (MileStone Evants Making Sprint History). As such by the year 1986 the company had emerged as the leading telecom company in the United States (MileStone Evants Making Sprint History). Sprint was able to accomplish this by developing the first nationwide completely digital fiber optic network (MileStone Evants Making Sprint History).

Additionally, during this time Sprint became a leader in the area of data communications by developing the third largest commercial packet network in the world. The article explains further that Sprint charged into the 1990s with pacesetting moves for both consumers and businesses. The company that gave America pin-drop clarity also became a global leader in voice and data services. Then a new kind of telecom company emerged in 1993, when Sprint and Centel merged to become a unique provider of local, wireless and long distance services. Sprint took its wireless strategy a big step further in the late '90s by building the only nationwide PCS network in the U.S. (MileStone Evants Making Sprint History)."

Fleet Net. was established in 1987 by Morgan O'Brien and renamed Nextel in 1993 (MileStone Evants Making Sprint History). This company grew quickly and established itself as a nationwide leader in the sphere of wireless communications. In 1995, Nextel was on course to provide service to each of the nation's top 50 markets (MileStone Evants Making Sprint History).

Since the compaby had established itself with a nationwide presence, it also wanted to demonstratethe capacity that the company had to innovate new products and services. To this end in 1996 the company introduced to the market the iDEN technology which was actually developed by Motorola (MileStone Evants Making Sprint History). The iDEN technology was important because it was the first phone that combined enhanced digital cellular, two-way radio and text/numeric paging (MileStone Evants Making Sprint History). Since that Time Nextel has worked diligently to develop greater products and services and to increase its market share (MileStone Evants Making Sprint History). By 2000, Nextel was a global company and developed an always-connected wireless data solution. The company also developed a Nationwide Direct Connect walkie-talkie service, and IP broadband access (MileStone Evants Making Sprint History).

In 20004...

Today the company utilizes the technologies that were devloped by both companies to offer customers unique products and services (MileStone Evants Making Sprint History).
Cingular

Cingular also known as the new at&T is now the largest wireless carrier in the United States of America. Cingular actually purchased at&T wireless in 2004 in a $41 billion deal (Cingular Completes at&T Wireless Takeover). This deal was approved by the Justice Department and also forced Cingular and at&T Wireless to sell airwave licenses, customer contracts and additional assets in 11 states to guarantee that competitors can offer competing service (Cingular Completes at&T Wireless Takeover). This merger made Cingular the leader in the industry; this position had been held by Verizon Wireless (Cingular Completes at&T Wireless Takeover). In addition one profile of the company explains that after at&T merged with BellSouth in 2006, the #1 wireless voice and data carrier in the U.S. (which overtook Verizon Wireless in 2004 when former owners BellSouth and SBC Communications combined assets and acquired then rival at&T Wireless) is now solely owned by at&T. SBC became at&T Inc. In 2005 after its purchase of at&T Corp. (Cingular previously operated as a 60/40 joint venture between at&T and BellSouth.) in 2007 at&T commenced its rebranding initiative (with the tagline "Cingular is now the new at&T") (att Mobility Company Profile)."

Currently the company has more that 62 million subscribers and provides customers with a plethora of wireless technologies and services (Cingular at a Glance). One of the primary services is mobile communications. The company works with many of the aforementioned manufacturers to present customers with unique technologies associated with cell phones and wireless devices (Cingular at a Glance). According to the company's official website Cingular is dedicated to becoming the most respected wireless company in the world (Cingular at a Glance). The company is also dedicated to customers and the needs that they present (Cingular at a Glance).

Conclusion

The purpose of this discussion was to provide a history of Motorola, Samsung, Nokia, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel, and Cingular. This discussion also provided information concerning the MP3 and Mobile phones that these companies offer. The research found that Motorola, Samsung, and Nokia are primarily responsible for developing and manufacturing the technology that Verizon, T-mobile, Sprint Nextel and Cingular use to provide services. The research also indicates that all of these telecommunications companies have incorporated MP3 capabilities into the products that they offer. The research seems to indicate that the companies will continue to make advances in technology that will benefit a global community that is increasingly becoming more mobile.

In addition the research found that this industry appears to be extremely susceptible to mergers as seen with SprintNextel and Cingular and at&T. These mergers seem to produce extremely strong companies that can offer customers a range of specialized products.

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