AT&T Wireless Services
AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., formerly part of AT&T Corp., was a wireless telephone carrier in the United States, based in Redmond, Washington, and later traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol “AWE”, as a separate entity from its former parent. On October 26, 2004, AT&T Wireless completed a merger with Cingular Wireless, a joint venture of SBC Communications and BellSouth, to become the largest wireless carrier in the United States. Under the agreement, only the Cingular brand name would remain. On 2004-11-16, AT&T Wireless stores were rechristened under the Cingular banner. The legal entity “AT&T Wireless Services, Inc.” was renamed “New Cingular Wireless Services, Inc.”[1] In late 2005, SBC (the majority partner in Cingular) acquired the original AT&T, and rebranded as “the new AT&T”. Cingular became wholly-owned by the new AT&T in December 2006 as a result of the new AT&T’s acquisition of BellSouth.
