Defunct Wireless Company Logos

Apparently Cellular One is still a thing in some areas, so won't be posting their logo.

 

Predecessor to Cingular, in our area. It used to be called Ameritech Cingular, then Ameritech was dropped.





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This was Pacific Bell's first venture into wireless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTouch

Supposedly, this was AirTouch's predecessor:
http://www.trademarkia.com/logo-images/pactel-corporation/pactel-cellular-74361817.jpg

 

In metro Atlanta there was BellSouth Mobility, a forerunner to Cingular



Most of the folks up there miss BellSouth landlines... The new AT&T isn't quite right lol

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Still rocking their old prepaid plan on Verizon. Just keep it out of nostalgia and long expirations.

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Wow. The Cellular One SE brand was acquired by Verizon a long time ago.

I could say the same about USCellular, but they are still alive, just not in Florida lol

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Part of cellular one was what became AT&T wireless (prior to Cingular merger) in California. I think GTE was the competing B-carrier that was gobbled up by VZW (Cellular One was A-carrier back in the AMPS days). Oh, and there was Pacific Bell before Cingular…

 

USCellular is alive and thriving here. They are the best CDMA provider in WI and IA



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They have presence in the Carolinas and Knoxville. In Georgia and most of Florida, it was sold to AT&T. The southeast Florida operations were sold to Alltel.

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Here in the Northeast, predecessors to Verizon Wireless, were Bell Atlantic Mobile and NYNEX Cellular.

 

@QLR I won't be dogmatic about it, but I'm thinking that your statement about Verizon "acquiring" Cingular is not quite accurate. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Cingular, before being rebranded by ATT as ATT Mobility, was wholly owned by the new ATT (formerly SBC).

SBC (Southern Bell Corp) was the Texas baby bell that turned around and cannibalized not only its siblings (such as the Pacific Bell in Calif that I worked for), but eventually even murdered it parent (the old ATT out of Atlanta).

I think that what happened is that the FCC "realigned markets" and forced the sale of holdings by many carriers over a period of several years. While working for ATT, there were internal notices of such alignments. I knew of one that sent a whole community in an uproar up in Washington State because it forced them all off CDMA and onto (at the time) TDMA. By reason of technology, they were all forced to get new phones. If it was anyone's "fault," it was the FCC's. All finger pointing should go there. However, the intent was not to skew customers. It was to provide a fair and level playing field. I don't know if such alignments are still happening.

 

@KevinJames, I did not say that at all. Way back in the day, there were several Cellular One brands, operated by different companies, and the one that operated in Georgia (and the Southeast) was acquired by Verizon.

In my post regarding BELLSOUTH Mobility, that was indeed taken over by Cingular.

Edit: http://www.verizonwireless.com/news/2002/08/pr2002-08-15a.html



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@KevinJames, I think you misread what @QLR said. He was talking about Cellular One, not Cingular.

Speaking of dead and buried carriers, the GTE seems to be defunct indeed, so here it is.

 

My bad. I'll blame it on old age, bad eyes, and chemo fallout. I saw the Cingular emblem above your post. Indeed you mentioned Cellular One. I'll go crawl back in my hole now.

 

What would be "neato peachie keen" would be to create a morphing video of these companies changing from one to the other. But seeing as some were swallowed up by larger companies, went completely defunct, or was just a realignment, I'm not sure how each of those scenarios would be represented. Then there is the added complexity of regional changes that affected the same company in different ways.

 

PrimeCo was huge.

Their service areas included Wisconsin, northern and central Illinois, and northern Indiana; and parts of Virginia and North Carolina, as well as the Gulf Coast from Key West, Florida to Houston, Texas. PrimeCo had the license to operate in Hawaii as well.

Iirc their headquarter was later moved to Itasca, iL @palandri, please correct me if I am wrong.



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Anybody remember this one? Southern New England Telephone.



And... Nextel



And while Sprint is not defunct as a company, but this logo is defunct:

 

If anyone can find a logo for Sussex Cellular that would be golden! LOL

 

I believe SNET's wireless service was called SNET Lynx.

 

Hi Joe, when I did a Google search, all I found was the FCC filings for the cancellation of Sussex Cellular license, along with some thoughts from Mr. Cline. but no logo. I even looked for SciTel to no avail.

 

Here are a couple of my alma maters.

 

Yes indeed. I started service with PacTel Cellular just as it was spun off from Pacific Telesis and renamed AirTouch Cellular, back in 1994.