Cingular bought AT&T Wireless

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http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/040217/telecoms_attwireless_3.html

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. mobile phone operator Cingular Wireless on Tuesday won a battle to take over smaller rival AT&T Wireless after bidding $41 billion in cash and trumping cellphone titan Vodafone.

 

[DaWhim]

yikes.....

 

[Analog]

ok, what does that mean?

 

[udonoogen]

thats it, im switching to verizon come March. (im currently an unhappy att wireless customer ... a former unhappy cingular customer)

edit:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/17/cingular.att/index.html

 

[DaWhim]

that means
#1 in size will be Cingular + attws
#2 will be whorizon

 

[Ikonomi]

As a long time Cingular (well, long time Houston Cellular) customer, I'm interested to see how this is going to pan out for the newly swollen Cingular Wireless. If this means a larger home network, especially for GSM subscribers, then that's a good thing. If this means that Cingular's already uncompetitive pricing is going to get worse, then that's a bad thing. If this means better phones available for Cingular subscribers (tri-band, quad-band, etc), then that's good too.

Either way... Interested to see what's going to happen in the medium and long run.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

hmm ... in california, Tmobile uses Cingular towers....

Also, wherever Cingular has reception, ATT doesn't have reception...and vice versa....(comparing w/ me and my roommate's phone..we always switch off using each others' phone wherever we go)


so does this mean better reception for tmobile as well?

my roommate hates att, i hated cingular and i hate tmobile due to poor services...

i wonder what will happen now..

 

[rudeguy]

I told you guys this would happen

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=1232670&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

 

[sweettart]

I knew about this before christmas ( my uncle worked for cingular). It means that att and cingular share the same towers, and probably some other stuff. Who cares as long as i get better reception and my payments dont go up.

 

[JoeKing]

I hope so, I just signed my sister up for a 2 year contract :disgust:

 

[dethman]

Originally posted by: Joeyman
I hope so, I just signed my sister up for a 2 year contract :disgust:

2 years? sucker.

 

[BeauJangles]

As long as the networks get integrated I will be pretty happy with this whole deal.

 

[JoeKing]

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Joeyman
I hope so, I just signed my sister up for a 2 year contract :disgust:

2 years? sucker.

they threw me a deal to good to pass up (it was my old plan and just passed it along to her) 200 anytime unlimited nights/weekend, free nationwide, all the usual stuff, 50 free text messages, a free phone (no rebate), for $30 a month. She just started college so I thought 2 years would be ok.

 

[Danman]

Here in Florida on the GSM network, ATT, Cingular and T-Mobile all use the same towers for the GSM network. I don't think this affect many people here, I just hope Cingular is going to have a better phone selection after this; this selection on phones SUCK.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Joeyman

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Joeyman
I hope so, I just signed my sister up for a 2 year contract :disgust:

2 years? sucker.

they threw me a deal to good to pass up (it was my old plan and just passed it along to her) 200 anytime unlimited nights/weekend, free nationwide, all the usual stuff, 50 free text messages, a free phone (no rebate), for $30 a month. She just started college so I thought 2 years would be ok.

That's a standard plan. You can get that deal from any store anywhere. BTW instruct her on not going over her minutes. I just paid $180 on my last AT&T bill 🙁

 

[conjur]

Maybe Cingular customers will get some decent new phone options!

 

[polm]

well seeing as I am an AT&T Wireless employee this is no big news to me...

but it will mean better services for the cutsomers...no doubt about that.

 

[JoeKing]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Joeyman

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Joeyman
I hope so, I just signed my sister up for a 2 year contract :disgust:

2 years? sucker.

they threw me a deal to good to pass up (it was my old plan and just passed it along to her) 200 anytime unlimited nights/weekend, free nationwide, all the usual stuff, 50 free text messages, a free phone (no rebate), for $30 a month. She just started college so I thought 2 years would be ok.

That's a standard plan. You can get that deal from any store anywhere. BTW instruct her on not going over her minutes. I just paid $180 on my last AT&T bill 🙁

nope, the standard plan doesn't include unlimited nights and weekends, nor the 50 free texts msgs. The unlimited nights and weekends is what sealed the deal. Couldn't find that for $30 anywhere else.

 

[beyonddc]

i wonder what will happen to our current service plan. Probably will move the current AT&T customer to the Cingular's service plan.........or something like that

 

[trmiv]

Cool, that means you can get crappy reception and dropped calls in more parts of the country now!

I dumped Cingular for AT&T Wireless, and then dumped AT&T for Verizon, glad I did.

 

[xEDIT409]

As a currently happy cingular GSM customer, I don't know how this will affect me. Hopefully not in a bad way.

;teh concerned;

 

[TranceNation]

Originally posted by: Joeyman

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Joeyman

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Joeyman
I hope so, I just signed my sister up for a 2 year contract :disgust:

2 years? sucker.

they threw me a deal to good to pass up (it was my old plan and just passed it along to her) 200 anytime unlimited nights/weekend, free nationwide, all the usual stuff, 50 free text messages, a free phone (no rebate), for $30 a month. She just started college so I thought 2 years would be ok.

That's a standard plan. You can get that deal from any store anywhere. BTW instruct her on not going over her minutes. I just paid $180 on my last AT&T bill 🙁

nope, the standard plan doesn't include unlimited nights and weekends, nor the 50 free texts msgs. The unlimited nights and weekends is what sealed the deal. Couldn't find that for $30 anywhere else.

lol, welcome to 2002, yes that IS the standard plan and frankly a little worse then the standard. only 200 anytime minuites? Most places I see have 300 now.

 

[brtspears2]

I just wanna see GSM 850.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
I just wanna see GSM 850.

DItto. AT&T's current GSM sucks elephant poop through a straw.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Joeyman

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Joeyman

Originally posted by: dethman

Originally posted by: Joeyman
I hope so, I just signed my sister up for a 2 year contract :disgust:

2 years? sucker.

they threw me a deal to good to pass up (it was my old plan and just passed it along to her) 200 anytime unlimited nights/weekend, free nationwide, all the usual stuff, 50 free text messages, a free phone (no rebate), for $30 a month. She just started college so I thought 2 years would be ok.

That's a standard plan. You can get that deal from any store anywhere. BTW instruct her on not going over her minutes. I just paid $180 on my last AT&T bill 🙁

nope, the standard plan doesn't include unlimited nights and weekends, nor the 50 free texts msgs. The unlimited nights and weekends is what sealed the deal. Couldn't find that for $30 anywhere else.

Yeah it does include the unlimited nights and weekends. My wife is on that plan herself.