Sprint GSM Service?
Yes! It is true, U.S. Sprint (formerly known as GTE Sprint, a joint venture between United Telephone and General Telephone & Electric (GTE)) has had a long history in commerical wireless service. In Virginia Sprint service came from Central Telephone Cellular (CENTEL Cellular). With the purchase of Central Telephone by United Telephone, CENTEL Cellular was rebranded as Sprint Cellular and Sprint Cellular was later spun off as 360° Communications which would later merge with Allied Telephone (Alltel) to form much of the modern Alltel. However, either before or after the spin off of 360° Sprint started another wireless venture in the Washington, D.C. area known as Sprint Spectrum which was operated by affiliate/subsidary? American Personal Communications (APC). This was a pure GSM service with an operator code of 310-02. However, Sprint felt the pull to start yet another wireless operation and dumped its GSM base station equipment on Omnipoint (later VoiceStream and now T-Mobile). To smo
