| Todd Allcock 2007-01-13, 4:33 am |
| At 12 Jan 2007 23:30:38 -0600 Sherry wrote:
> So is this Cingular or AT&T service?
It's a name change only. The new AT&T is the curent Cingular.
> When I renew my contract (maybe
> I should say *IF*), will I need to pay an activation fee again for the
> "new" service?
No. When you last renewed, you were moving from the old ATTWS to their
purchaser. Cingular bought ATTWS (which, ironically no longer had any
relation to the old AT&T, who was bought by Southwestern Bell, half-owner
of Cingular. SWB renamed itself AT&T, then merged with Bell South, who
owned the other half of Cingular. Now that "the new AT&T" owns all of
Cingular, renaming it AT&T as well makes sense)
>
> I was so fried when Cingular took over AT&T wireless - we had AT&T for
> years and renewed with Cingular (since AT&T was now owned by them and
> we had no other choice) and they charged an activation fee and I
> didn't get a free phone upgrade as I always had with AT&T.
What do you mean "you had no other choice?" You could've switched to a
different carrier if you wanted whenever you completed your AT&T Wireless
contract. (I'm not suggesting that you SHOULD have, only that you could
have.)
> Well, the
> contract was done by the time we got the bill showing the activation
> fee (funny, the manager forgot to mention that).
>
> Our two years are up and we're wondering what to do now......
If you're happy enough with the service, why not just continue month to
month until you have a reason to renew (like needing new phones, for
example.) In my ten years with Cingular (starting when they were
"Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems" in my area) I was under a contract
probably for only three or four of them. In my current six-plus years
with T-Mo, I'm finishing up my 3rd one-year contract this April. Unless
I want a substantial discount on a new phone, I don't need or want a
contract.
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