Posted by Frank on May 9, 2008, 8:54 am
> http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/attwireless.html
Never had any problems with AT&T until Cingular took over. Big difference
when AT&T was just AT&T with billing issues resolved quickly over the phone.
My experience with Cingular is you just go around and around and nothing
would be resolved even after they agree to it verbally. I just don't do
business with Cingular or Sprint. Wish the old AT&T were back though.
Posted by beadsbyirene on May 9, 2008, 9:23 am
>> http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/attwireless.html
> Never had any problems with AT&T until Cingular took over. Big difference
> when AT&T was just AT&T with billing issues resolved quickly over the
> phone. My experience with Cingular is you just go around and around and
> nothing would be resolved even after they agree to it verbally. I just
> don't do business with Cingular or Sprint. Wish the old AT&T were back
> though.
Where have you been the past year? There is no Cingular anymore. ATT bought
them out. If you're getting lousy service you're getting it from ATT which
normally doesn't give 'lousy' service. Their service is usually
'abominable'.
Posted by Todd Allcock on May 10, 2008, 1:11 am
At 09 May 2008 09:23:03 -0400 beadsbyirene wrote:
>
> Where have you been the past year? There is no Cingular anymore.
> ATT bought
> them out. If you're getting lousy service you're getting it from ATT
which
> normally doesn't give 'lousy' service. Their service is usually
> 'abominable'.
*Sigh* AT&T did NOT "buy out" Cingular. Cingular's parent company, SBC
(Southwestern Bell) bought (what was left of) AT&T,and renamed themselves
and their "Cingular" wireless divison, to "AT&T" for the name-brand
recognition.
Posted by Pangloss on May 10, 2008, 8:22 am
> At 09 May 2008 09:23:03 -0400 beadsbyirene wrote:
>>
>> Where have you been the past year? There is no Cingular anymore.
>> ATT bought
>> them out. If you're getting lousy service you're getting it from ATT
> which
>> normally doesn't give 'lousy' service. Their service is usually
>> 'abominable'.
> *Sigh* AT&T did NOT "buy out" Cingular. Cingular's parent company, SBC
> (Southwestern Bell) bought (what was left of) AT&T,and renamed themselves
> and their "Cingular" wireless divison, to "AT&T" for the name-brand
> recognition.
Actually they bought BellSouth which owned Cingular...
Posted by Todd Allcock on May 10, 2008, 9:40 am
At 10 May 2008 08:22:45 -0400 Pangloss wrote:
> > *Sigh* AT&T did NOT "buy out" Cingular. Cingular's parent company, SBC
> > (Southwestern Bell) bought (what was left of) AT&T,and renamed
themselves
> > and their "Cingular" wireless divison, to "AT&T" for the name-brand
> > recognition.
>
> Actually they bought BellSouth which owned Cingular...
Almost- SBC (now AT&T) bought BellSouth who owned 40% of Cingular (SBC
owned the other 60%.)
I skipped that part for simplicity (and irrelevance.) Cingular was always
a joint-venture between SBC and BS. After absorbing both AT&T and BS, SBC
was free to rename Cingular to AT&T.
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