Cingular, AT&T Wireless Launch Intercarrier MMS
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but they merged..... right?
the 2 carriers merged, right? so in theory they are in the process of making everything transition to one big company. this is more of an update on merging everything than some great handshake between to companies.
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It's a tentative merge - still waiting on a number of things (most importantly FCC approval). It might seem like they're just trying to get a jump on the actual merging process but it's still very possible that the merger doesn't go through.. Cingular and AWS are still doing their best to operate as completely seperate companies just in case something screws up with the whole process.
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Not yet. The merger is still pending government approval. In the meantime, they are required by law to act as separate, competing companies.
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For the inexperienced and uneducated, I will break this down for you. There are 13 steps to a company merger, the FCC has approved 12 of the 13 steps for ATT Wireless and Cingular to merge, the 13th step is expected to be approved sometime in late October. Now after the 13th step is approved, Cingular will cut the $41 Billion check to ATT Wireless, and ATT Wireless will have 6 months to continue operating as ATT Wireless and not Cingular. During these 6 months, the nerds and computer geeks of the two merging companies will get cracking and attempt to finally "merge" the two networks together. After the 6 months is up, goodbye ATT Wireless. Now, ATT will be starting their own wireless network after the merger has taken place. The network will...
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