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Re: SPRINT = a "meltdown," a "miserable performance" and a "disaster"
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| Tinman 2008-01-24, 3:33 pm |
| Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 22 Jan 2008 22:41:05 +0000 Dennis Ferguson wrote:
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> That's an interesting take on it that I'd agree with if this wasn't
> AT&T we were talking about!
We're not. It was Cingular at the time, particularly during the original
negotiations. Heck, it was still Cingular when the iPhone was announced.
So all of these "this is how at&t works" type posts are pointless IMO.
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Mike
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| Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 24 Jan 2008 12:51:22 -0700 Tinman wrote:
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> AT&T didn't acquire Cingular. It was simply a name change. Cingular was
> owned by SBC (who bought and then assumed the name of AT&T, who by that
> time was but a shadow of it's former self) and BellSouth. When "AT&T" (SBC)
> merged with BellSouth, Cingular was rechristened "AT&T" with no material
> change in operation. For all intents and purposes, "AT&T Mobility" (what
> the company refers to it's wireless division internally) is the old Cingular,
> unchanged but for it's name.
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> When I referred to "how AT&T works" I was referring to "The Artist Formerly
> Known As Cingular." ;-)
> RCR Wireless News, a cellular industry trade paper, has, since the name
> change, been referring to the former Cingular as "AT&T Mobility" to avoid
> confusion with "AT&T" (the former SBC/BellSouth landline telco) and "AT&T
> Wireless" the old cell company spun off from the old AT&T and eventually
> acquired by Cingular. Besides being the company's internal name for that
> divison, it's easier to write and say than "the wireless division of AT&T."
I think Steven Colbert had the best explanation of the whole thing:
"http://www.videosift.com/video/Stephen-Colbert-gives-a-brief-history-of-ATT"
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| Tinman wrote:
> Todd Allcock wrote:
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> It's not that black and white.
Despite the similarity in names, AT&T Wireless was a totally different
company than AT&T. AT&T spun it off on July 9th 2001.
SBC, which owned half of Cingular, acquired AT&T (not AT&T Wireless) on
November 18th 2005, and then changed its own name to AT&T.
Then AT&T (previously SBC) acquired BellSouth on December 29th 2006
(which owned the other half of Cingular), and the kept the AT&T name,
and now AT&T owned all of Cingular.
Then AT&T (which owned all of Cingular) decided to rename Cingular to
AT&T (though they did not rename it as AT&T Wireless).
So the bottom line is that AT&T did not acquire Cingular.
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| Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 24 Jan 2008 16:05:51 -0800 SMS wrote:
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> ATT"
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> That's a great clip- I downloaded it to my phone a couple of months ago as
> a test of some YouTube capture/playback Windows Mobile software. I still
> fire it up occasionally for a chuckle.
It's been taken down from most places. That's the only place I could
find it anymore.
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