Private company

iWireless

Iowa Wireless Services LLC, doing business as iWireless, was a mobile network operator founded in 1997, not related to Kroger's service.1

Last updated Oct 18, 2026.

Overview

1997Founded1
  • Industrymobile phone industry, telecommunications industry1
  • HeadquartersUrbandale1
  • Websiteiwireless.com

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Iowa Wireless Services LLC, doing business as iWireless, was a mobile network operator founded in 1997, not related to Kroger's service. Headquartered in Urbandale, Iowa, iWireless was a partnership between T-Mobile US, Inc. and Iowa Network Services Inc. iWireless owned licenses to operate GSM cellular networks in the PCS-1900 and AWS-1700 radio frequency bands covering Iowa, southwestern Wisconsin and northwestern Illinois. iWireless had over 250 full-service company stores and authorized dealers across Iowa, western Illinois, and eastern Nebraska. iWireless was acquired in full by T-Mobile and on October 1, 2018, the service was shut down as customers were encouraged to migrate to T-Mobile plans.2

How it started

History

iWireless was founded in 1997 as Iowa Wireless Services L.P., a joint venture between Western Wireless Corp. and Iowa Network Services Inc., a consortium of 127 Iowa independent telecommunications companies. The joint venture was formed to expand PCS throughout Iowa, marketing services under the VoiceStream Wireless brand name.

T-Mobile will acquire the remaining shares from Aureon (the successor company to Iowa Network Services) by the end of 2017/beginning of 2018.

T-Mobile acquired iWireless, and service on the iWireless network was discontinued on 10/01/2018.

From Wikipedia’s article on iWireless, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Timeline

  1. Oct 1, 2018Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1997Founded Founded1

Sources

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