Top Carriers Hit With Lawsuits
In Cingular's defense...
I was an AT&T GSM customer and my service degraded significantly in the process of the merger. The only way I could get out of it was to switch to a less favorably priced Cingular plan and sign onto a new contract. I didn't want to do that, so I just waited until the end of my contract and left for T-Mobile...
Hopefully this lawsuit gets settled and I can get some money from it!
peterskim said:
Hopefully this lawsuit gets settled and I can get some money from it!
And those who never experienced any difficulty will get hit with the cost...win or lose.
Thanks, all you greedy Americans who sue anything with money.
Cingular used questionable practices in order to obtain that money in the first place.
Are you telling me people do not have the right to seek legal recourse when they are taken advantage of by a Corporation such as Cingular? That's like saying you can't sue a thief for your money back.
You might wanna think long and hard before responding, because many of the devices and services you take for granted as being reliable and safe to use are only so because of direct result of lawsuits.
If your so upset about the costs of this, perhaps Cingular should have thought about that before they used such policies.
More to the point, why not get upset about the millions of dollars in re-branding and advertising that are ...
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captainplooky said:
You might wanna think long and hard before responding, because many of the devices and services you take for granted as being reliable and safe to use are only so because of direct result of lawsuits.
If your so upset about the costs of this, perhaps Cingular should have thought about that before they used such policies.
Prove to me the policies that Cingular used were different than what any other company would have used. Prove to me that Cingular deliberately degraded the quality of their network so that they could force customers to migrate. Prove to me that any activation fee paid to Cingular by an AT&T customer was unjustifiable when every single customer, new...
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we were given all kinds of crap that showed what areas were going to be effected and when... How to enforce the 18.00 upgrade fee and rebuttals for customers that don't want to pay it.
Cingular knew exactly what they were doing and it was their holier then thou attitude that pissed everyone off and got them busted..
Secondly, what are all of these customers that left Cingular you speak of? It doesn't seem that way since churn rate has dropped considerably EVERY QUARTER since the buyout. Cingular is doing just fine.
i gotta go now i gotta sue Dish Network for making me buy a new HDTV
i'm pretty sure that there are stipulations in there regarding mergers and buyouts...
I have been a cingular agent for 6 years... most of the people that this affected were the penny pinchers who were on old TDMA contracts with GSM devices
you know what plans i'm talking about... the ones that were like 9 bucks a month for 20 minutes... people got all up in arms about that, but seriously, if you are only using 20 minutes a month, and you're not in a contract any more, you should switch to prepaid... because at that point, you're costing cingular, or any other provider, more than you're giving them just by keeping that old ass plan.
cingular was not wrong in charging AT&T customers the $18.00 upgrade fee because cingular customers had to pay it when they upgraded. Also AT&T customers could migrate to cingular at any time and would not have to pay a cancellation fee. After a certain point in time AT&T customer no longer had to pay the upgrade fee, and now get the phones at new customer prices.
So here... the AT&T customer is being treated better than the existing cingular customer.
As far as service being degraded... Well if AT&T customers phones couldn't pick up the cingular ...
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peterskim said:
Hopefully this lawsuit gets settled and I can get some money from it!
The only people who ever get any money from class action suits are lawyers. By the time the lawyers get done with their fee's and crap what ever million / billion settlement they ended winning usually only nets the people it actually affected is two or three dollars.
This country is WAY to sue happy. I cite examples like the people who sued McDonald's for making them fat, or the women who sued McDonald's because her coffee was hot and it burned her when it spilled in her lap. I don't think the fact that McDonald's now has nutritional information available will make me any less fat if I eat there, or the fact that thei...
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