AT&T Buys Dobson Communications
Full Circle
Just like AT&T went full circle:
AT&T Became:
AT&T
Southwestern Bell
US West
BellSouth
Nynex
Bell Atlatnic
Ameritech
Pacific Telesis
SNET
Southwestern Bell bought Ameritech, SNET, Pacific Telesis, then merged thier wireless with that of BellSouth into Cingular, which then bought AT&T Wireless, then SBC bought AT&T, chagning its name to AT&T, then bought BellSouth into AT&T, and of course, Cingular into AT&T.
Now, CellularOne was joint venture of SBC and McCaw Communications (which would later become AT&T Wireless), joined by SNET, and some other A-side cellular companies, and in I think 1998 or 1999, Western Wireless joined in. When SBC/BellSouth merged their wireless into Cingular, CellularOne became the property of West...
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AT&T Became:
AT&T
Southwestern Bell
US West
BellSouth
Nynex
Bell Atlatnic
Ameritech
Pacific Telesis
SNET
Southwestern Bell bought Ameritech, SNET, Pacific Telesis, then merged thier wireless with that of BellSouth into Cingular, which then bought AT&T Wireless, then SBC bought AT&T, chagning its name to AT&T, then bought BellSouth into AT&T, and of course, Cingular into AT&T.
Now, CellularOne was joint venture of SBC and McCaw Communications (which would later become AT&T Wireless), joined by SNET, and some other A-side cellular companies, and in I think 1998 or 1999, Western Wireless joined in. When SBC/BellSouth merged their wireless into Cingular, CellularOne became the property of West...
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For me, it was Ocean County Cellular, to Cellular One Comcast, to Cingular, and now the new AT&T.
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Except Western Wireless's "CellOne" brand isn't affiliated in any way with Dobson's "Cellular One" brand.
The two get confused all the time, but as I found out when I was transfered to Abilene TX, and thought I could keep my current Cellular One contract. At least both use GSM, so I didn't have to buy a new phone.
The two get confused all the time, but as I found out when I was transfered to Abilene TX, and thought I could keep my current Cellular One contract. At least both use GSM, so I didn't have to buy a new phone.
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johnnycashak said:
Except Western Wireless's "CellOne" brand isn't affiliated in any way with Dobson's "Cellular One" brand.
The two get confused all the time, but as I found out when I was transfered to Abilene TX, and thought I could keep my current Cellular One contract. At least both use GSM, so I didn't have to buy a new phone.
I only added the Western Wireless CellularOne name in there because Western Wireless was the sole owner of the CellularOne group, and the name, it was just a step in the circle.
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