According to Antonios Drossos, a managing partner at Rewheel, a mobile data strategy firm, “America really has three main cell phone companies – Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile – and then you have a bunch of smaller companies that piggyback off of the physical network that these other companies have. Is that the optimal way to arrange a wireless telephone and data market?”

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/19/1164585479/what-t-mobiles-acquisition-of-mint-mobile-means-for-competition-in-the-industry

An 1895 advertisement for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Credit: AT&T

Click here for an interactive timeline of the history of AT & T published by The New York Times (“AT&T’s History of Invention and Breakups” 13 Feb. 2016)