Legacy AT&T Wireless Services Page

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Welcome to the AT&T Wireless page. For lack of a better name, this page is here to preserve the image of what was AT&T Wireless. What would have survived and maintained AT&T Corp as a dominant company in the telecommunications industry was spun off, and finally merged with Cingular Wireless. In an odd turn of events, one of Cingular's parent companies, SBC Corp (and later BellSouth), announced its merger with AT&T Corp. However, by that time, it was too late to save the AT&T Wireless brand, as it was already stripped from stores. Cingular was rebranded AT&T Mobility, Inc. in early 2007. AT&T stores now sell all AT&T services, in addition to their wireless service. Ironically, AT&T is unofficially called "AT&T wireless" at times, or it is also referred to as "AT&T's wireless service."

But, rather than dwelling on what could have been, we prefer the pure nostalgia of knowing you're cool and hip (in a wireless-industry view of cool-and-hip) enough to actually admire looking at things like old AT&T Wireless coverage maps, devices, and company logos. Everything on this page is for historical purposes only, we fully respect AT&T Corp and Cingular's copyrights.

Contents

1 Coverage Maps

2 Splash Screens

3 mMode

4 Company Logos

4.1 2D Logos

4.2 3D Logos

5 Devices

5.1 UMTS

5.2 GSM

5.3 TDMA

[edit] Coverage Maps

A majority of AT&T Wireless' national coverage maps are being offered for download below. Most of them are available in PDF, GIF and Macromedia Flash (SWF) formats.

AT&T Wireless GoPhone National - GIF PDF SWF

Free2Go National - GIF PDF SWF

GPRS & EDGE - GIF PDF SWF

GPRS & EDGE (AWS-Owned Only) - GIF

GSM America National - GIF PDF SWF

Multiband National - GIF PDF SWF

Ogo - GIF PDF SWF

TDMA Digital One Rate - GIF PDF SWF

TDMA National - SWF

UMTS Regional Coverage:

Arizona (Phoenix) - GIF PDF SWF Brochure 1 (PDF) Brochure 2 (PDF)

California (San Diego) - GIF PDF SWF

California (San Francisco) - GIF PDF SWF Brochure 1 (PDF) Brochure 2 (PDF)

Michigan (Detroit) - GIF PDF SWF Brochure 1 (PDF) Brochure 2 (PDF)

Texas (Dallas) - GIF PDF SWF

Washington (Seattle) - GIF PDF SWF Brochure 1 (PDF) Brochure 2 (PDF)

[edit] Splash Screens

Below are some of the AT&T Wireless startup and shutdown animations. Some, such as the 3GPP opening and closing videos, are more advanced than most phones to this day have implemented. 3GPP Startup/Shutdown splashes for AT&T Wireless were only featured in the Motorola A845, as Cingular had purchased AWS following their release.

AT&T Wireless 3GPP Startup Video
AT&T Wireless 3GPP Shutdown Video
Motorola 3GPP Startup/Shutdown (Motorola assisted AWS with the design of their 3GPP animations)

[edit] mMode

AT&T Wireless mMode was the start of the emergence of consumer-focused wireless data services in the United States. It provided more functionality, better appearance, a full music store, and better marketing. Cingular modeled their MEdia Net service after the initial performance of mMode. mMode's competitors also were spurred by the success of mMode, such as Sprint PCS Vision and Verizon's Mobile Web 2.0. About two years after merger with AT&T Wireless, Cingular replaced their older MEdia Net portal with a new portal based on the existing mMode portal (though continuing to use the MEdia Net name, and orange/blue color scheme of Cingular). This was after complaints from customers that the mMode portal was superior, despite being discontinued for new customers.