A friend who owns an ISP here made an interesting point. Cingular,
> Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS, Alltel ... all of those wireless
> services are owned by wireline companies (in Verizon's case, only 55%
> because the company that owns the other 45% is not a wireline
> carrier).
Cough, cough. T-mobile is a horse of a different color. It started off as a bunch of more-or-less self standing cellcos in the US who were eventually bought up/merged into Voicestream (Western Wireless), which had a hefty amount of Asian capital behind it.
They were then picked up by the German/European phone and communication giant, Deutsche Telekom.
So while they're owned by a telco, it's in a very, very, different situation than the others.
Disclaimer: I'm not only a customer, I'm also a shareholder.
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