AT-T wireless service - Re: Cingular to change name

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Re: Cingular to change name

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2007-01-06, 10:34 pm

SinghaLvr wrote:

> I think many customers have nostalgic feelings toward AT&T.

Or at least that's what the AT&T execs hope.

Consumers have very negative feelings toward AT&T's long distance
services, which engaged in very deceptive marketing for many years.
Remember all those promises of multiple monthly credits to your phone
bill if you agreed to switch to AT&T LD. The credits usually ended up to
be far less than the telemarketer promised, but of course since you had
no written agreement you were screwed.

Personally, I had only good experiences with AT&T Wireless, but I left
prior to their decline. If someone has been living in a cave, and
doesn't realize that the new AT&T Wireless is simply Cingular, then they
may mistakenly switch to it, expecting more than they're going to get.

Jeffrey Kaplan

2007-01-06, 10:34 pm

It is alleged that Kurt claimed:

>
> Do you actually know anything about the Treo?

Does the fact that I used a Treo 650 for over a year and a half and
upgraded to a 680 about three weeks ago count? I'm currently active on
the Treo list at Yahoo, as well as several program-specific lists. And
I've been using Palms since the IIIx was current. I may not be an
ubergeek with it, but I think I know what I'm talking about.

> Medianet is incompatible with the Treo.

Just because Cingular wants to sell you their unlimited PDA Connect for
another $40/month doesn't mean that MediaNet doesn't work. It works
just fine for me. It's just the name of a data service.

> Because you have two mail programs installed by Cingular, XpressMail is
> incompatible with Treo.

I think I used XPressMail once, way back in June of '05 when I got my
first Treo. I thought it sucked. It worked, but it sucked. Versamail,
as maligned as it is by a lot of people, is a lot better than
XpressMail. If it were incompatible with the Treo, it wouldn't even
load and run.

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Kurt

2007-01-07, 10:33 pm

In article < sh90q29j0iq5s71rppde
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l.org>,
Jeffrey Kaplan <nomail@gordol.org> wrote:

> It is alleged that Kurt claimed:
>
>
> Does the fact that I used a Treo 650 for over a year and a half and
> upgraded to a 680 about three weeks ago count? I'm currently active on
> the Treo list at Yahoo, as well as several program-specific lists. And
> I've been using Palms since the IIIx was current. I may not be an
> ubergeek with it, but I think I know what I'm talking about.

Good, read my comments further.
BTW- why the upgrade? 680, from all the reviews, has shortcomings like
diminished battery life. Blazer's apparently a little quicker, but I
don't see the big deal - especially since you aren't on a data plan.
>
>
> Just because Cingular wants to sell you their unlimited PDA Connect for
> another $40/month doesn't mean that MediaNet doesn't work. It works
> just fine for me. It's just the name of a data service.

Had my Treo for almost 2 years. Intially tried to set up MediaNet. This
was before I had any data plan. Wouldn't work. Was told from the get-go
that MediaNet would not work with Treo. They, on many occasions, have
told me that this is for cell phones only, not Treo. Spent a lot of time
with Cingular with this.
If you actually use it on your 650/680 - proof how screwed up Cingular
is with Treo support.
>
>
> I think I used XPressMail once, way back in June of '05 when I got my
> first Treo. I thought it sucked. It worked, but it sucked. Versamail,
> as maligned as it is by a lot of people, is a lot better than
> XpressMail. If it were incompatible with the Treo, it wouldn't even
> load and run.

Xpressmail would not work, and Cingular support said it was
compatibility issues with Treo.

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