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United States
Main article: List of United States mobile phone companies
The country has 285.6 million subscribers in total, or a 91.0% penetration rate. [110] (December 2009)

The country's telecom regulator is the FCC.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions) Ownership
1 Verizon Wireless CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A
GSM, GPRS
LTE (Planned) 92.8 [111] (March 2010) Verizon Communications (55%), Vodafone Group plc (45%)
2 AT&T Mobility
•Includes Centennial Communications and its subsidiaries
(Centennial Wireless and Centennial de Puerto Rico) GSM, GPRS, EDGE
UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA, HSPA+ (Planned)
LTE (Planned) 87.01 [112] (March 2010) AT&T
3 Sprint Nextel
•Includes Sprint Network, Nextel Network, and Boost Mobile Prepaid,
Virgin Mobile USA, Assurance Wireless and Common Cents Mobile. Sprint Network
CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A
Nextel Network
iDEN, WiDEN 48.11 [113] (March 2010) Sprint Nextel Corporation
4 T-Mobile UMA
GSM, GPRS, EDGE
UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA, HSPA+ 33.7131 [114] (March 2010) Deutsche Telekom
5 TracFone Wireless
•Includes NET10, Straight Talk, SafeLink Wireless CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT
GSM, GPRS 15.51 [115] (March 2010) América Móvil (98.2%)
6 MetroPCS CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0
LTE (Planned) 7.33 [116] (March 2010) MetroPCS, Inc.
7 U.S. Cellular CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A 6.147 [117] (March 2010) Telephone and Data Systems (82%)
8 Cricket
•Includes Jump Mobile CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A 5.400 [118] (March 2010) Leap Wireless
9 Clearwire
•Includes CLEAR. WiMAX 0.9711 [119] (March 2010) Sprint Nextel Corporation (51%)
10 Qwest Wireless CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A 0.922 [120] (March 2010) Qwest Communications
11 Alltel CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A 0.895 [121] (April 2010) Atlantic Tele-Network
12 Cellular South CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A
LTE (Planned) 0.800 [122] (January 2010) Cellular South
13 Cincinnati Bell Wireless GSM, GPRS, EDGE 0.5233 [123] (March 2010) Cincinnati Bell, Inc. (100%)
14 nTelos
•Includes Frawg CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A 0.445 [124] (March 2010) nTelos Holdings Corp.
15 Pocket CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0 0.300 [125] (April 2009) Pocket Communications
16 SouthernLINC iDEN, WiDEN 0.275 [126] (April 2008) Southern Company
17 Movida Wireless CdmaOne 0.217 [127] (March 2008) Movida Communications, Inc.
18 Alaska Communications Systems CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0 0.137 [128] (December 2009) Alaska Communications Systems
19 Bluegrass Cellular CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A 0.130 [129] (May 2005) Bluegrass Cellular, Inc,
20 GCI Wireless
•Includes GCI Network, and Alaska DigiTel Network GCI Network
GSM, GPRS, EDGE
Alaska DigiTel Network
CdmaOne
CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A 0.1205 [130] (September 2009) General Communication

1.Currently unable to determine AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Tracfone, and Clearwire subscriber numbers without Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands
 
So Far, I'm Happy with Sprint. I will want to upgrade a new cell but Idk yet, I'm thinking abt it.
 
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