Cingular cell phone service - Re: SPRINT = a "meltdown," a "miserable performance" and a "disaster"

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Re: SPRINT = a "meltdown," a "miserable performance" and a "disaster"

Tinman

2008-01-24, 3:33 pm

Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 24 Jan 2008 12:51:22 -0700 Tinman wrote:
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> AT&T didn't acquire Cingular.

It's not that black and white. The merger that was finalized in late
December 2006 was between AT&T and Bellsouth. Bellsouth owned half of AT&T.

> It was simply a name change.

See above (it was more than that--two parents coming together so to speak).
The rebranding came about in mid-January, 2007, after the iPhone's
announcement. In any event the company with whom Apple negotiated was not
AT&T (or maybe they did if they started early enough, but it would have been
ATTWS).

Please note it was your comment of "I'd agree with if this wasn't AT&T we
were talking about" that triggered my reply. To me that comment implies the
AT&T of yore, which doesn't apply at all in this situation, nor was "that"
AT&T even involved in iPhone negotiations.

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Mike

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