Partners Now Owned By AT&T
- Unicel only in the states of VT, NY and WA. Other Unicel systems were acquired by Verizon.
- AT&T Wireless (original McCaw systems; see above)
- Vanguard Cellular (see above)
- BellSouth Cellular (operated under the Cellular One name instead of the BellSouth name in the Indianapolis, IN and Chicago areas; switched to the Cingular brand when SBC and BellSouth formed Cingular)
- Santa Cruz Cellular Telephone Company, Santa Cruz County, CA (purchased by Dobson in the mid-1990s sold to AT&T in approximately 2002)-This was a key purchase for AT&T as only missing holes in O&O Northern California coverage were San Benito & Santa Cruz counties, owned then, by Dobson.
- Easterbrooke Cellular, Elkins, WV- Purchased on January 3, 2008 to expand coverage in West Virginia
- Dobson Communications acquisitions
- PriCellular (NY, PA, MN, OH, KY, MI, WV, TN) — Acquired by American Cellular on March 1998
- American Cellular — Purchased August 2003
- RFB Cellular, Inc (Cellular One of Northeast Michigan) — Purchased by Dobson Communications on December 2004
- Highland Cellular (VA, WV) — Purchased in October 2006 by American Cellular (a subsidiary of Dobson Communications)
- Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico, Inc (Cellular One Puerto Rico, also serves U.S. Virgin Islands) — Acquired by SBC Communications and Telmex for $814 million in 1999, switched to the Cingular brand when SBC and BellSouth formed Cingular.
- Cellular One of Lake Charles, Louisiana (first acquired by Centennial Wireless which was purchased by AT&T in Nov. 2008)
- San Luis Obispo County, California (SLO Cellular) — Sold to AT&T, service ends Jan 17, 2011.
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