AH Technology-related Challenge: Make Vodafone among top 5 cell phone companies in US

Yep, it's as simple as it sounds. With a POD in the early 1990s, make Vodafone one of the top 5 cell phone companies in the US. Bonus points if Vodafone does not merge with AirTouch, and even more if Vodafone adopts GSM technology in the US AND runs the operation similar to the UK operation.
 
I'm bumping this because I was about to start a similar thread...

And this is a really easy challenge, too, as long as you pass up the bonus points...

1) Vodafone merges with AirTouch and doesn't merge it with Bell Atlantic Mobile (still CDMA, though they could deploy GSM for 3G as the South Korean carriers do)

2) Vodafone wins the bidding war against SBC/BLS-controlled Cingular and gains control of AT&T Wireless Services (not "the new" at&t, but the old one)... in this case they would divest their stake in Verizon Wireless to Verizon and would even have GSM to boot.
 
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