MetroPCS Communications, Inc., (formerly General Wireless, Inc.) was launche 2002 and is a provider of CDMA wireless communications services in the greater Miami, Tampa, Sarasota, Fort Myers, Atlanta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Daytona, Dallas, Detroit, Orlando, and Sacramento metropolitan areas. As of the ending of first Quarter of 2008 , MetroPCS serves a total of over 4.4 million subscribers.