3.7m GSM Users in North America as of 5/99
[...out of 76m total wireless users]
What is GSM?
GSM Cellular Operators In North America |
3.7m GSM Users in North America as of 5/99
[...out of 76m total wireless users]
What is GSM?
| Live Operators 1999 | MTAs | BTAs | Licenses | POPs | Coverage |
 Aerial Communications |
6 | 0 | 6 | 25,756,307 | |
 Bellsouth Mobility DCS |
1 | 4 | 5 | 13,300,000 | North & Carolina, East Tennessee & Georgia |
| Cook Inlet Western Wireless PV/SS PCS | 0 | 0 | 25 | 11,331,707 | |
 DigiPH PCS |
0 | 0 | 9 | 2,057,608 | Mobile, Alabama and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Biloxi, Pensacola, FL. Ft. Walton will follow soon |
 Einstein PCS [Airadigm Communications] |
15 | 15 | 3,453,065 | Wisconsin, Iowa, & Illinois | |
 Fido |
Canada | ||||
 NPI Wireless |
0 | 0 | 2 | 350,000 | [Northern Michigan] |
 Omnipoint |
1 | 126 | 127 | 126,599,013 | From Maine through Virginia, Southeast Florida, Detroit, Indianapolis |
 Pacific Bell Mobile Services |
2 | 0 | 2 | 39,663,762 | California & Nevada |
 Powertel |
0 | 0 | 29 | 27,522,452 | 12 Southeastern States |
| PCS ONE | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1,832,001 | |
| Southeast Telephone | 940,229 | ||||
 Voice Stream |
7 | 100 | 107 | 58,056,142 | Oregon, Indiana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Oaklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, Iowa |
 Sprint Spectrum (APC) |
1 | 1 | 7,777,875 | Baltimore, MD & Washington, D.C. | |
| Wireless 2000 PCS | 0 | 4 | 4 | 489,076 | |
| Total POPs | 318,189,008 |
| Companies Planning to Use GSM | MTAs | BTAs | Licenses | POPs |
| Americall | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3,247,907 |
| Communications Ventures PCS L.P. | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1,839,941 |
| Conestoga PCS | 0 | 0 | 4 | 838,466 |
| Mountain Solutions | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1,686,132 |
| Northern Michigan | 0 | 0 | 7 | 363,167 |
| PCS 2000 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3,521,846 |
| Personal Com. Network | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1,486,359 |
| 0 | 0 | 41 | 33,374,622 |
| Wireless Tel Co. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 101,954 |
| Total Pops | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47,400,623 |
Source:
GSM Alliance