Defendant

SunCom Wireless Operating Company LLC

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
2007
Top venue
E.D. Texas
1 case

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SunCom Wireless Operating Company, LLC ("SWOC") is the operating subsidiary of SunCom Wireless Holdings, Inc., a regional U.S. wireless carrier founded in January 1999 as Triton PCS Holdings and headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. SunCom was publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker TPC and reported roughly 1.1 million subscribers and more than 1,900 employees as of Q3 2007, with Q2 2007 revenue of about $242.5 million (CNET, Reuters). It is no longer an independent public company: T-Mobile USA, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, announced its acquisition on September 17, 2007 for approximately $1.6 billion in cash plus about $800 million in assumed debt, and the deal closed February 22, 2008 (FCC; Deutsche Telekom 20-F). The SunCom brand was retired in September 2008. SWOC survives as a license-holding subsidiary; FCC filings list it with a Bellevue, Washington address and T-Mobile USA as real party in interest.

SunCom operated GSM/GPRS cellular networks in the Southeastern United States (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, parts of Virginia) plus Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, selling prepaid and postpaid voice and data plans. It migrated from TDMA to GSM during 2003–2006 and held PCS licenses covering 28 Basic Trading Areas. It also sold towers and acquired customers in asset swaps with Cingular/AT&T Wireless.

Litigation posture: an operating company defending, not asserting. The database shows 1 tracked case, 0 as plaintiff and 1 as defendant — consistent with a regional carrier targeted by patent holders rather than an NPE.

Notable case: Freedom Wireless, Inc. v. SunCom Wireless Holdings, Inc., et al., No. 2:07-cv-00152, filed in the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division), a plaintiff-friendly patent venue. Phoenix-based Freedom Wireless — a patent-holding/development company that had won a reported $128 million prepaid-wireless verdict against Boston Communications Group and several carriers — asserted U.S. Patents 5,722,067; 6,157,823; and 6,236,851, covering "transparent" prepaid cellular service, naming SWOC and affiliated SunCom entities along with Ericsson. The court denied SunCom's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction (March 31, 2008) and issued a Markman order later that year. Note the tracked filing date (April 19, 2007) differs slightly from the docket number's year; outcome of the suit is not recorded in the case data provided.