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First Cingular Buys AT@T Wireless And Now They Are Buying AT@T All Together....

DocAlchemy

Jan 29, 2005, 8:30 PM
How and when does this affect us cingular customers?

On a technology framework/groundwork level how does this effect us all?
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bigdaddyjay

Jan 29, 2005, 8:34 PM
It shouldn't affect you unless Ed Whitaker ends up bankrupting SBC with his greed and quest to reclaim the largest telecom company in the U.S. 🤣
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RUFF1415

Jan 29, 2005, 11:37 PM
I don't think it would effect the customers in the slightest.

However, this happening would be AMAZING. I'm still a little furious of how the government broke up AT&T in the first place and that was in the 80s. I know that monopolies can be a bad thing but I feel that AT&T really deserved everything that they accomplished.

If this does happen I'm wondering if the involved companies would drop their current names to go back to AT&T. I mean, AT&T hasn't lost its name recognition altogether just because of AT&T Wireless, has it? I'd love it to be back to the way it was. Strictly AT&T.

Plus, I could finally get a combined billing discount. 😁
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tnyflrs

Jan 30, 2005, 10:00 AM
I don't believe customer will benefit much from the acquisition. On the other hand SBC will have more assetts to directly manipulate to it self reducing the cost of line leasing, but yet again that's the reason AT&T is going out of business as the government mandate the company to lease the lines at below operating cost.

I almost new AT&T will be on the block for at least 3 months now when it announced that domestic long distance won't be part of the core business. Somewhere in one of this forums I posted such insinuation of the AT&T sale.
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