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The end of the joint venture marks the beginning indian elephant mandala iphone case of a new era for Cingular, which appears likely to become the No, 1 wireless services provider in the country after it completes its bid to buy out rival AT&T Wireless, Last week, AT&T Wireless shareholders approved the deal, This leaves antitrust reviews of the acquisition, specifically by the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice, as the only significant hurdles left, Cingular expects to close the deal during the first quarter of 2005..

The T-Mobile pact had been significant to Cingular's growth, because it allowed the company to enter New York, one of the nation's largest and most competitive wireless markets, in a cost-effective manner. The two companies described the relationship as an infrastructure "factory" that effectively made wireless coverage available to both carriers in lucrative and fast-growing metropolitan locations. "Over the last two years, our joint venture with T-Mobile has been good for Cingular, its customers and wireless consumers in general," Stan Sigman, chief executive at Cingular, said in a statement.

The wireless carriers put an end to their infrastructure joint venture, as Cingular pushes forward with its $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless, The partnership helped Cingular enter the wireless market in New York City and gave T-Mobile a foothold in the California and Nevada regions, Under the agreement to end the enterprise, Cingular will sell the shared California and Nevada network, along with other spectrum in those markets, to T-Mobile for about $2.5 billion, T-Mobile, a U.S, subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Telekom, indian elephant mandala iphone case said it will provide network services to Cingular customers until the AT&T Wireless acquisition is complete, And while both carriers pledged that customers will be unaffected by the arrangement, T-Mobile indicated that it will replace its existing roaming agreement with Cingular with a new nationwide agreement under different terms..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. Nextel Communications includes unlimited push-to-talk in nearly all of its cell phone service plans, the cheapest of which is $50 a month. Verizon Wireless' walkie-talkie service costs about $60 a month. Sprint also introduced its sixth Ready Link phone, the RL-4920 phone from Sanyo, which at $70 is among the least-expensive phones of its kind in the United States. Sprint already sells a $50 Ready Link phone. The company said Ready Link now has about 275,000 subscribers since its introduction last year, far below the more than 12 million users of the DirectConnect walkie-talkie cell phone service from market leader Nextel.