they want to call the company. AT&T merge with cingular, change the name to cingular make me get a cingular compatible phone. Now they are AT&T again. Am I going to have to buy a new phone again?
LOL I heard that a few days ago and thought the same thing. I was also AT&T, then cingular, now will be AT&T again, but since its a merge I wouldn't think we'd have to buy new phones again (atleast I hope not since I just bought 3 new phones at christmas for my daughters & me).
Like a slime mold which has crawled towards a new source of nourishment, The Phone Company is now reassembling itself to gorge on its newfound nutrient pool ...
Funny thing is I went with AT&T originally because Cingular wanted to big of a deposit. Then I became a Cingular customer and now I suppose I'm an AT&T customer again. Oh well... they'll play hell getting my rollover minutes out of my hands :-)
I just hope they make the medianet cheaper. It is like $10 for a meg! You have got to be kidding me. I would love to get my gmail on my phone, but I am not shelling out $10-20 a month for that.
When AT&T was bought by SBC, then the companies have changed hands. At that time all the transitions that needed to happen have happened.
This is just a name change. The parent companies now merged (AT&T amd Bell South), the size of the wireless part is the same and the contracts remain the same.
No worries (of that kind, at least)
Like Leroy I went AT&T when Cingular wanted a huge deposit ($700+ per line -- ouch!), then became Cingular and not merged into the whole again. The whole process has been completely seamless and painless in every way.
The only hitch I have experienced at all has been with tech support. Not that they haven't provided top notch service to me -- because they have -- but a couple of times the Indian accent was just too thick for me to understand them. After I apologized for not being able to understand them and being transferred to another with less of an accent it was all good. I consider that to be my lack of experience with varying dialects -- I have had the same problem trying to talk to a couple of support people from other companies from NY. Yes, one had a very thick Brooklyn accent -- but the other just talked too damn fast. Seriously, the entire conversation could have been one word!
I have no complaints about the newly reformed Ma'Bell.
Like a slime mold which has crawled towards a new source of nourishment, The Phone Company is now reassembling itself to gorge on its newfound nutrient pool ...
I'm proud to report I have lived my life in a phone-free zone. I have a phone, actually, but it gets used maybe once a month, if that, and not by me :-)
Funny thing is I went with AT&T originally because Cingular wanted to big of a deposit. Then I became a Cingular customer and now I suppose I'm an AT&T customer again. Oh well... they'll play hell getting my rollover minutes out of my hands :-)
Same thing happened to me. I was with Sprint than switched to Nextel and then they merge. It's like the Godfather, "Just when I thought I was out they pull me back in".
I'm proud to report I have lived my life in a phone-free zone. I have a phone, actually, but it gets used maybe once a month, if that, and not by me :-)
I'm proud to report I have lived my life in a phone-free zone. I have a phone, actually, but it gets used maybe once a month, if that, and not by me :-)
R.
But isn't what we are doing here just using a phone of a different sort? :D
Funny thing is I went with AT&T originally because Cingular wanted to big of a deposit. Then I became a Cingular customer and now I suppose I'm an AT&T customer again. Oh well... they'll play hell getting my rollover minutes out of my hands :-)
Same thing happened to me. I was with Sprint than switched to Nextel and then they merge. It's like the Godfather, "Just when I thought I was out they pull me back in".
Funny thing is I went with AT&T originally because Cingular wanted to big of a deposit. Then I became a Cingular customer and now I suppose I'm an AT&T customer again. Oh well... they'll play hell getting my rollover minutes out of my hands :-)
Same thing happened to me. I was with Sprint than switched to Nextel and then they merge. It's like the Godfather, "Just when I thought I was out they pull me back in".
That's how I feel about Bank of America: I've spent most of my life running from them, and they keep buying whatever local bank I use. I have finally given up and accepted the reality that they were determined to have me and they are much bigger than me. I no longer have the strength to resist.
I'm proud to report I have lived my life in a phone-free zone. I have a phone, actually, but it gets used maybe once a month, if that, and not by me :-)
R.
But isn't what we are doing here just using a phone of a different sort? :D
David
Except no rate plans, no long-distance charges, and the computer doesn't ring insistently when I'm having dinner or watching a movie.
Funny thing is I went with AT&T originally because Cingular wanted to big of a deposit. Then I became a Cingular customer and now I suppose I'm an AT&T customer again. Oh well... they'll play hell getting my rollover minutes out of my hands :-)
Same thing happened to me. I was with Sprint than switched to Nextel and then they merge. It's like the Godfather, "Just when I thought I was out they pull me back in".
That's how I feel about Bank of America: I've spent most of my life running from them, and they keep buying whatever local bank I use. I have finally given up and accepted the reality that they were determined to have me and they are much bigger than me. I no longer have the strength to resist.
R.
That's how I feel about Bank of America: I've spent most of my life running from them, and they keep buying whatever local bank I use. I have finally given up and accepted the reality that they were determined to have me and they are much bigger than me. I no longer have the strength to resist.
R.
My checking account has survived being owned by three different banks.
My safety-deposit box has been owned by four banks -- currently BofA! -- and located in three different buildings ... : )
SBC thinks AT&T is a more recognized better liked name.
Ironically, AT&T is the biggest turn off of any name any telephone company in history has for me. SBC, Cingular, Verizon, Bell Atlantic, etc. These all sound better to me than AT&T
Okay, what do I think of when I think of AT&T. And evil monopolistic dysfunctional entity striving to control the entire galaxy's telephone system.
Why...there is little difference in my mind between the Imperial AT&T and
