The Mobile phone industry in the United States is covered in this article. Mobile phones are usually called "cell phones" in the United States.
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There are now four companies in the United States that offer nationwide mobile phone service.[1] Two of these (AT&T and T-Mobile USA) provide service using the GSM standard, while the other two (Verizon and Sprint) principally use CDMA.
There are also several regional and local mobile phone service providers (e.g., MetroPCS, Cricket, U.S. Cellular, etc.).
The Federal Communications Commission is the main regulator of the mobile phone industry in the United States. Qualcomm is the inventor of and main contributor to cdmaOne and CDMA2000 mobile phone standards.
Some of the mobile phone terminals available are:[2]
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Sprint Nextel is the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, with 52 million customers.
T-Mobile is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. market with 33.73 million customers and annual revenues of US$21.35 billion in 2010.
While it is "mobile phone" in British English, it is "cell phone" in American English. The term "cell phone", short for "cellular phone" came into the day-to-day American English vocabulary during the 1980s when the mobile phone companies had to distinguish their mobile phone that can be carried from one cell to another, each controlled by a land-based antenna, from the earlier Improved Mobile Telephone Service phones. In Wikipedia, "mobile phone" is more often used because it can be used across various technologies.
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