BellSouth shareholders OK AT&T Takeover
As reported by yahoo and by AP BellSouth shareholders, which I am one of them, approved the upcoming sale of their company to AT&T. obviously, the Federal and state regulators must also approve the deal. Once it is completed, according to sources and management, BellSouth and Cingular names will be phased out. In addition, both AT&T and BellSouth have mentioned in filings that it will help, when they merge, to better handle Cingular Wireless, which they will be owning 100% of if the merger is approved and closed and to eliminate any challenges that Cingular is currently facing problems especially that has to deal with the management decisions and execution.
It is expected that the merger will be closed in the fall.
It is expected that the merger will be closed in the fall.
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Its funny cause the merger is pretty much just cosmetic. All of cingulars policies and systems will stay the same, and all Legacy ATT users will be migrated to cingulars billing.
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But things are really going to move real fast after the buyout of bellsouth. Att is going to cut spending at Cingular drastically. Look for some layoffs in customer service and in stores once the buyout closes. Plus look for the CARE billing system to be gone quicker than u think.
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Well yeah, care is a freakin pain. But as far as layoffs in customer service, its not going to happen. They just started hiring new reps up and down because the customer count is growing, they also just turned like, three new buildings into rep centers. The people who decided all this are still going to be where they are after the merger and dont plan on changing any of this.
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85% of terminations in csutoemr service are due to attendace and not due to job performance. There will be layoffs in customer service mainly in illinois
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Making a late reply, home computer has been kind of "sick" so to speak.
Of course there will always be people who dont keep their job for having bad attendance for one reason or another. Also, I would like to apologize, I didn't mean to offend anyone on my replys to this post. I just tend to be really blunt and frank. I'm not going to say that there are not bad representitives out there, they can be found in any business and thats just my opinion. But more or less I was regarding attendance and performance for any job will contribute to not keeping it.
As for large amounts of layoffs. From what I have "heard" there shouldn't be any, I'm really just a rep myself and don't know to much about all that, I simply responded to that a bit p...
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Of course there will always be people who dont keep their job for having bad attendance for one reason or another. Also, I would like to apologize, I didn't mean to offend anyone on my replys to this post. I just tend to be really blunt and frank. I'm not going to say that there are not bad representitives out there, they can be found in any business and thats just my opinion. But more or less I was regarding attendance and performance for any job will contribute to not keeping it.
As for large amounts of layoffs. From what I have "heard" there shouldn't be any, I'm really just a rep myself and don't know to much about all that, I simply responded to that a bit p...
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Also, to my comment regarding customer care, not the wonderful people doing their jobs. Just the fact that and I know how this goes as well. Care is a pain with most companies in the sense that I, or I'm quite sure a few others in this world dont want to have to call someone else for help. I myself spent four days on the phone trying to get my own new phone activated and it just sucked. I appriciate everone who works out there to get services set up for a costomer be it wireless service or cable, etc. But it can just be a real pain. Ya know? lol
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Well yea, but the AT&T BLS merger makes it easier to grow Cingular. Such as; one culture, one decision, one huge happy family with an international footprint. I think you get the idea. Although the merger wouldn’t really affect Cingular and its cellular capacity and footprint, it would help with decision-making and execution.
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actually, once both att and bellsouth are one company and all is integrated you will see a difference. two core land line support brought together will help in call processing and routing. long distance routing, trunks, etc... one backbone for servers (att) instead of the 3 -4 that are currently used. att will work at getting the type 1 numbers in bst markets converted to next generation numbers which will help with reliability of prefixes that were left over from old southern bell and south central bell instead of numbers getting phased out and customers having to change their numbers. i don't know if type 1 numbers are a problem on the att side, but in bst it is, expecially in ky/in/al nc and sc. i'm not big on the name change, but from th...
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The reason why I invested is that I get a nice dividend plus a nice growth story (FCF) and a very nice premium to as where I held it. ( I have BLS not AT&T) T had a great quarter by the way, and the management seemed please with Cingular and their wire line businesses.
The point I made was that you wouldn’t see a difference when T and BLS merge with respect to Cingular’s call capacity and coverage. Since the LD and networks would be the same, however, combined.
The point I made was that you wouldn’t see a difference when T and BLS merge with respect to Cingular’s call capacity and coverage. Since the LD and networks would be the same, however, combined.
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I have a completely different understanding of how this is happening. I thought that at&t was bought out by bell south last year and they were calling the rebranding of bellsouth and cingular to at&t a "buyout" to make it look like at&t was some giant still. And the only reason they were spinning it like this was to push the at&t name because it has better name recognition in the U.S.A. and internationally and it is easier to market one name instead of several. But I remember in the fourth quarter they were marketing "The new at&t" which was just bell south rebranded.
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You seem very knowledgable about the wireless business... How does this merger affect the call quality/reception of Cingular?
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Which one. It won't make a difference in call quality when it is rebranded to at&t however it is constantly getting better with network integration and additional towers being added.
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Thank you.
I do not think that the merger with BLS and AT&T improves on the Cingular’s call quality and reception because the only way to do that is to build out more cell sites, spend more on capital expenditures, and use the spectrum more efficiently. I think, however, the merger will be a lot better on Cingular about one culture, one decision-making, ability to focus more on Cingular, give more resources to Cingular with increasing in the Capital Expenditures and other initiatives, and to complete the integration between Cingular and ATTWS and BLS and AT&T’s networks.
I do not think that the merger with BLS and AT&T improves on the Cingular’s call quality and reception because the only way to do that is to build out more cell sites, spend more on capital expenditures, and use the spectrum more efficiently. I think, however, the merger will be a lot better on Cingular about one culture, one decision-making, ability to focus more on Cingular, give more resources to Cingular with increasing in the Capital Expenditures and other initiatives, and to complete the integration between Cingular and ATTWS and BLS and AT&T’s networks.
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"The New AT&T" was an SBC re-branding. SBC bought out what was left of AT&T's landline service and the name and then started calling themselves AT&T for better brand recognition. Shortly after that they started talking about buying BellSouth, which of course brings Cingular under 100% ownership of AT&T. For the same reason they rebranded SBC into AT&T they're planning on rebranding Cingular back to AT&T Wireless....for brand recognition. This will of course effectively waste the millions Cingular spent trying to get rid of the AT&T Wireless name.
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hey disturbed, I think there is a little more to it than that
Changing the name to at&t gives SBC a global image. I beleive they are seeking world domination. Muahaha 😈
Changing the name to at&t gives SBC a global image. I beleive they are seeking world domination. Muahaha 😈
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That and it is much more efficient(cheaper) to market one brand instead of several!
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disturbed1 said:
This will of course effectively waste the millions Cingular spent trying to get rid of the AT&T Wireless name.
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What they spend on rebranding will effectively save the company millions year over year. It takes a lot less to market one brand as opposed to three.
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it'll be "The New at&t" lowercase i heard. I don't know if they'll stick the wirless on it or not.
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