SunCom

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SunCom is an wireless carrier that has operated in the Southeastern United States since 1999 and in parts of the Caribbean since 2004. SunCom provides digital wireless communications services to more than 1,000,000 subscribers in the markets where they do business - featuring international, national and regional calling plans. SunCom employs more than 1,900 people.

Contents

1 History
2 Cellular services

2.1 Southeast U.S. operations
2.2 Caribbean operations

3 Refrences
4 External links

History

Originally founded in January of 1999 as Triton PCS Holdings, the company has gone through many deals with other celluar carriers. In December 2004, SumCom acquired 29,139 customers from Cingular Wireless as part of a deal of exchanging towers. In March 2005, SunCom sold 169 cell towers in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Puerto Rico to Global Signal Acquisitions. SunCom formed an agreement with Global Signal Acquisitions in June 2005 to lease tower space that they subsequently sold. In October 2005, SunCom agreed to sell the 29,139 customers from the deal in 2004 back to Cingular. [link][link]

Cellular services

SunCom's operations provide service across North Carolina, South Carolina, northern Georgia, parts of eastern Tennessee, and southwest Virginia, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

SunCom Wireless currently provides wireless service utilizing two wireless technologies, TDMA and GSM. TDMA is the technology platform that SunCom originally used when it constructed its wireless network and began offering service in 1999. In 2003, the company began overlaying GSM along with its associated GPRS technology, which has been available across SunCom's footprint since June 2004. GSM/GPRS offers more advanced wireless capabilities including data and video transmission.

Suncom Wireless operates in two separate and distinct regional areas: one in the Southeast U.S. and one in the Caribbean.

Southeast U.S. operations

The company's Southeast operations provide service across North and South Carolina, northern Georgia and parts of eastern Tennessee, and southwest Virginia. SunCom owns wireless licenses in the "28 Basic Trading Areas" as defined by the Federal Communications Commission which covers SunCom Wireless's southeast region. These licenses include the major metropolitan areas of Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, and Charleston and in aggregate encompass a population of over 14 million people.

Caribbean operations

In the Caribbean, Suncom operates in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company owns 3 wireless licenses covering this territory, which has a population of 4 million.

Refrences

External links

	American mobile phone companies
Alltel \| Centennial Wireless \| Cincinnati Bell Wireless \| Cingular Wireless \| Cricket Communications \| Dobson Cellular \| Edge Wireless \| MetroPCS \| Midwest Wireless \| Revol \| SouthernLINC Wireless \| Sprint Nextel \| SunCom \| T-Mobile \| U.S. Cellular \| Unicel \| Verizon Wireless
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