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Fota · Post by **Fota** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:54

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Post by **Altuslumen** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:59

The Cingular -> AT&T rebranding has finished, thus there is no more Cingular. It is just the former name of AT&T's wireless division.

Fota · Post by **Fota** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 13:10

Ahh. I was wondering when that would be done. Our company sites still say Cingular for now. *shrug*

Post by **Altuslumen** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 13:14

Yeah, it was just considered finished last week, and this week cingular.com shut down. It is a pretty new change, but something that AT&T wanted to get done before the iPhone at the end of June.

Post by **Dizzy** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 09:55

I'm actually pretty excited that AT&T bought cingular, I just hope the re-branding is as seamless and the sprint/nextel was.

On a side note, as a consumer I'm pretty excited about AT&T coming back full force, im just a bit worried about their "land line" type business. Verizon is doing an overhaul of the NE and laying down fiber optic lines to replace all the old copper lines, where as AT&A is banking on just a maintenance/expansion of their copper...

I think Verizon made the better move here, assuming that both complete the changes... but then again... im not sure if AT&T has all the NE business that Verizon does... so it might work out for them in the long run.

being here in the south it is AMAZING that so many people only have net access at work.. i feel like im in the 70's sometimes....

Post by **Altuslumen** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:05

Well, Verizon is running fiber to everyone's house. AT&T is running fiber to the local node (~ a mile from houses). AT&T will have the option later on to run fiber the rest of the way. Verizon is spending a lot of capital right now without the return to justify it, they are banking on it paying off in the long run. AT&T is taking a more conservative approach and our stock prices are showing that investors appreciate that.

BellSouth and AT&T (formerly SBC) co-owned Cingular (40% & 60%), thus merging with them isn't that difficult since they were already working together, just not as a single company.

Post by **Dizzy** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:13

Ohhh Alt, I didnt know you knew about all of that stuff!

Yup, co ownign makes the rebrandign easier... but consumers still resist it.... so I hope it goees really well for them.

I've alwyas liked AT&T so i just hope they can come back uber strong!

Post by **Altuslumen** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:28

I didn't read a lot about telecom stuff until I started working for AT&T, but now I find it interesting. From our internal notifications the rebranding is going better than planned, thus the reason the "Cingular" name was retired a few months earlier than the original plan.

I know the AT&T name has a few hurdles, like in St. Louis people knew it as the annoying company that called to offer long distance and SBC was the phone company. But, that seems to be going away as people get used to the change. Hopefully the same can occure in wireless.

Post by **Myrsho** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 08:15

Not to 'poo poo' on your 'AT&T is great' party, but I've been having the worst time getting my new phone set up here at the house. I've called AT&T more times than I would like to count and have spent a few hours on hold or talking with CS. At least one or two CS agents entered an order for transfer incorrectly, and if I hadn't called again this morning they would have never gotten my phone going. Right now my house rings with a number that doesn't belong to me, and the number I was originally assigned gives the message that it has been disconnected. The tech people are on this now and are going to sort through all the orders and get them completed so that they can finally transfer the correct number to the house.

Now I'll admit that I'm really dealing with SBC (since this is local service) but I get to have fun bashing AT&T since that is the current name of the company. It is a good thing they took on the AT&T name since I would have hated to say anything bad about SBC.

Post by **Dizzy** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 09:05

lmao yeah.. i even had to endure bad stories about people from gamestop when i wsa there...

not everyone can be perfect like us.

(ok most ppl cant be)