# UScellular

> UScellular spent four decades as the largest regional wireless carrier in America, wiring up the small towns and rural highways the national giants skipped. In 2025 it sold its wireless business and most of its customers to T-Mobile for about $4.3 billion, then renamed the leftovers Array Digital Infrastructure - a tower-and-spectrum landlord built from the bones of a phone company.

- **Founded:** 1983
- **Headquarters:** Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founders:** LeRoy T. Carlson (Founder of parent Telephone and Data Systems (TDS))
- **Team size:** ~4,000-6,100 employees prior to the 2025 wireless sale
- **Products:** Postpaid & prepaid wireless plans, 5G network & devices, Home Internet (fixed wireless), Business & IoT solutions, Array Digital Infrastructure (towers & spectrum)
- **Notable:** Grew into the largest regional and fourth/fifth-largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving 21 states., Built and owned a network of more than 4,000 cell towers across small and rural markets., Held naming rights to prominent venues including the Chicago White Sox ballpark (U.S. Cellular Field, 2003-2016).

## Products & services

- **Postpaid & prepaid wireless plans** — Monthly cellular voice, text and data plans for consumers and families, including unlimited data, multi-line and auto-pay discounts across 21 states.
- **5G network & devices** — 5G and LTE mobile service plus smartphones, tablets, wearables and accessories from Apple, Samsung and others.
- **Home Internet (fixed wireless)** — Fixed wireless home internet delivered over the cellular network for rural and suburban homes underserved by wired broadband.
- **Business & IoT solutions** — B2B connectivity, mobile device management, IoT/M2M solutions, mobile hotspots and private networking for small businesses and enterprises.
- **Array Digital Infrastructure (towers & spectrum)** — Post-sale entity owning ~4,000+ cell towers and retained spectrum licenses, leasing capacity to national carriers.

## Achievements

- Grew into the largest regional and fourth/fifth-largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving 21 states.
- Built and owned a network of more than 4,000 cell towers across small and rural markets.
- Held naming rights to prominent venues including the Chicago White Sox ballpark (U.S. Cellular Field, 2003-2016).
- Repeatedly named a Top Workplace and recognized for customer service in regional markets.
- Executed one of the largest wireless consolidation deals of the decade, splitting spectrum across all three national carriers.

## Latest updates

- **2024-05** — UScellular and T-Mobile announced a definitive agreement for T-Mobile to acquire UScellular's wireless operations and select spectrum for about $4.4 billion.
- **2024-11** — UScellular announced a roughly $1 billion spectrum sale to AT&T; a separate ~$1 billion spectrum deal with Verizon was also agreed.
- **2025-07** — Company announced it would rebrand as Array Digital Infrastructure, pivoting to a towers-and-spectrum model.
- **2025-08** — T-Mobile completed the ~$4.3 billion acquisition of UScellular's wireless operations; the AT&T spectrum sale also closed. Doug Chambers named interim CEO of Array Digital Infrastructure.

## Links

- Website: https://uscellular.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uscellular
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/USCellular
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/uscellular
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uscellular
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/uscellularcareers

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Last updated: 2026-08-20