01-02-2007, 03:00 PM
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Cingular To Be Rebranded By AT&T
http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=22860
"In the coming days, AT&T will launch extensive new advertising, which will begin the transition of the BellSouth brand name to AT&T. AT&T will re-brand Cingular through a co-branded transition, which is scheduled to start in 2007."
As AT&T wraps up its acquisition of BellSouth, which was its major partner in the Cingular venture, it will rebrand the service, though the specific name isn't mentioned. It could revert to AT&T Wireless, which is what many of you knew the service as just a year or so ago when Cingular took over the wireless network before the old AT&T merged with SBC. Confused yet? :wink:
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01-02-2007, 07:54 PM
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And in a few years, there will be the AT&T Divestiture of 2015 which will segregate AT&T into numerous distinct and separate RBOC's. AT&T will retain its name and be known as Ma Bell. The RBOC's will be regionalized and be known as Baby Bells.
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01-02-2007, 08:06 PM
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Aingular?
CT&T?
"We can't make up our collective frackin' minds!"?
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01-02-2007, 10:01 PM
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Will we be forced to bring in our Cingular phones to be rebranded or will they have a DIY kit?
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01-02-2007, 10:02 PM
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Re: Cingular To Be Rebranded By AT&T
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
AT&T will re-brand Cingular through a co-branded transition, which is scheduled to start in 2007."[/i]
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AHA!!!!
i knew it! And I just converted my mother to Cingular.
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01-02-2007, 11:15 PM
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AT&T is an iconic name of American communication industry, so you could expect that it is not going to go away in history so easy
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01-03-2007, 03:16 AM
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Hmm, maybe DCIT will be the new name as in Dog Chasing It's Tail. :mrgreen:
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01-03-2007, 04:02 PM
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Maybe my bill will get lost in the transition... :mrgreen:
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01-03-2007, 04:58 PM
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This is all part of the cycle of hell :devilboy: this entity, which clearly has no real name, keeps putting me through every couple of years. Our company has been with "the beast" :devilboy: since the days when it was called PacBell Wireless. When it became Cingular Wireless, trying to get anything accomplished was a nightmare. The excuse was always something to do with the transition to Cingular Wireless. Then they aquired AT&T Wireless, and the customer service excuse was always something about the merger, regrouping, scaling up, down, sideways of the two companies causing "the beast" :devilboy: to burp up flames (or something like that), and it would all get better once things settled down. Now, as it is today, it is tolerable to try to get something resolved through customer service. So what do they want to do now? They want to change the name of "the beast" :devilboy: back to AT&T, so they can spend the next 2 years apologizing to me and telling me how much they understand my frustrations. Perhaps in a few years they will just change their name to the :devilboy: Demons Of The Unholy :devilboy: phone company. At least then when we either renew or sign up for the first time, we will know what we are getting into. :devilboy:
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01-03-2007, 05:22 PM
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Intellectual
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Jason Lee
Maybe my bill will get lost in the transition... :mrgreen:
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Nah, you'll get a separate bill from each company under their current and former names! :deal:
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