COMPANY

Founded 1986 when Craig McCaw purchased MCI's wireless operations for $122M. It was acquired by AT&T in 1994 for $11.5B, then spun off as AT&T Wireless in 2001, which was subsequently acquired by Cingular in 2004 (60% owned by AT&T!)

Industry:
Communications

Corporate headquarters:
Redmond, WA

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Tom A. Alberg	Business	c. 1940		Madrona Venture Group
John Chapple	Business	c. 1954		CEO of Nextel Partners, 1998-2006
Peter L. S. Currie	Business	c. 1956		CFO of Netscape, 1995-99
Timothy M. Donahue	Business	1949		CEO of Nextel, 1999-2005
Craig McCaw	Business	11-Aug-1949		Billionaire, Nextel
Maggie Wilderotter	Business	9-Feb-1955		CEO of Citizens Communications

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Wil Shipley	Computer Programmer	16-Oct-1969		The Omni Group, Delicious Monster

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