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Cell phone operators to share network in Nevada

Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001 | 9:37 a.m.

FRANKFURT, Germany -- VoiceStream Wireless has agreed to share cellular networks with Cingular Wireless in Nevada, New York and California, a move the companies said Monday would bring savings on equipment and operating costs.

The companies said the joint venture, in which they would have equal control, would cover an area populated by some 55 million people and would cut costs by "hundreds of millions of dollars."

VoiceStream, based in Bellevue, Wash., is Deutsche Telekom's U.S. mobile telephone business.

Cingular is a joint venture between SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp.. SBC owns Nevada Bell, which provides local phone service in Nevada outside of the Las Vegas area.

VoiceStream and Cingular will market themselves independently, but will buy network services from the joint venture.

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