It is OFFICIAL: Cingular Wireless will be rebranded AT&T in early 2007.
(If you click on the PDF with the FAQs) It is clear that Cingular Wireless will be rebranded. Now interstingly enough in the PDF they have a FAQ that reads: Will you change the name of Cingular Wireless to AT&T Wireless? AT&T answered saying that right now they are not giving any details on the rebranding, but they will address this in more detail in 2007 when the rebranding of Cingular begins.
So there you have it.
(And what is SO FUNNY is the Cingy rep in Chicago told me that Cingular will not go away after the AT&T BellSouth merger, and I told him ...
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16385838/ »
The FCC*s approval was the last major regulatory hurdle for the proposed deal, which is the largest telecommunications merger in U.S. history.
Lawyers for AT&T and the two Democratic commissioners who had opposed the merger, hammered out a compromise, the details of which were released Thursday night.
Among the conditions offered by AT&T is a promise to observe *network neutrality* principles, an offer of $19.95 per month stand-alone digital subscriber line service and a vow to divest some w...
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