p>Cingular Wireless won the bidding war to acquire AT&T Wireless Services for nearly $41 billion in cash, a deal that would create the nations largest cell phone company.</p><p>The merger between the ...

Although Cingular is the largest cell phone service provider in the U.S., it has been losing ground to Verizon Wireless, which has been gaining new subscribers at a faster rate and which has ...

At the top is Cingular Wireless, a joint venture between BellSouth ... the world's largest mobile-phone operator. Under terms of the deal, Sprint shareholders would get one share of the new ...