Cingular RUINED AT&T!!! I don't know how else to put it.
Cingular purchasing AT&T was like that kid from the etrade commercials getting his daddy's blackberry and pressing some buttons and buying a company by mistake.
I was an AT&T subscriber from the start...I had a bag phone with them in colleg, various car phones...I've had them up until today and Cingular ruined RUINED that company.
i started with Cingular back in 1999, and i never had any problems. now, when they purchased crappy AT&T, it seemed to make everything go downhill. so, you, good sir, are to blame for these problems!
You are absolutely correct. AT&T RUINED Cingular. my first cell phone was with Cingular (Houston Cellular). I had various phones over the years and then SBC bought Bell South (owner of Cingular) and a few months later bought AT&T and SBC changed their name to AT&T. Then they decided to change Cingular's name to AT&T Mobile (not to be confused with the now defunct AT&T Wireless which Cingular bought from AT&T prior to being purchased by SBC and getting their name changed.) Which confused the hell out of people who were with AT&T Wireless and in the process of switching over to Cingular only to be told they were now switching over to AT&T Mobile but their old phones still wouldn't work even though the name wasn't changing all that much after all.
OH Wait......you said Cingular Ruined AT&T.....but which AT&T were you referring to? Wireless or Mobile?
The Dr. promised this madness would pass!!!
[Former support tech for large install base of AT&T Wireless customers]
Despite who ruined whom... in their current form they need some work. They're business practices are shoddy, they're overpriced, the service isn't spectacular, they make stupid changes to every phone they get by adding crapware and modifying the UI, and relentlessly push one phone (the iPhone) over all others... no matter how many times you tell them you don't want it. They need to look at some other carriers as models and make changes accordingly. Then maybe they will be good enough so I don't have to bitch about them every time I pay my bill.
Too bad that the coverage in this area (mountains of SW PA), AT&T is the only way to get reliable signal. Verizon isn't great around here and you can forget about Sprint and T-Mobile.
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xultar @ May 28th 2009 2:09PM
Cingular RUINED AT&T!!! I don't know how else to put it.
Cingular purchasing AT&T was like that kid from the etrade commercials getting his daddy's blackberry and pressing some buttons and buying a company by mistake.
I was an AT&T subscriber from the start...I had a bag phone with them in colleg, various car phones...I've had them up until today and Cingular ruined RUINED that company.
Cingular RUINED AT&T!!!
teej @ May 28th 2009 2:38PM
you probably just had some crappy phones.
i started with Cingular back in 1999, and i never had any problems. now, when they purchased crappy AT&T, it seemed to make everything go downhill. so, you, good sir, are to blame for these problems!
Chad @ May 28th 2009 2:48PM
You are absolutely correct. AT&T RUINED Cingular. my first cell phone was with Cingular (Houston Cellular). I had various phones over the years and then SBC bought Bell South (owner of Cingular) and a few months later bought AT&T and SBC changed their name to AT&T. Then they decided to change Cingular's name to AT&T Mobile (not to be confused with the now defunct AT&T Wireless which Cingular bought from AT&T prior to being purchased by SBC and getting their name changed.) Which confused the hell out of people who were with AT&T Wireless and in the process of switching over to Cingular only to be told they were now switching over to AT&T Mobile but their old phones still wouldn't work even though the name wasn't changing all that much after all.
OH Wait......you said Cingular Ruined AT&T.....but which AT&T were you referring to? Wireless or Mobile?
The Dr. promised this madness would pass!!!
[Former support tech for large install base of AT&T Wireless customers]
Eric D. @ May 28th 2009 3:11PM
Despite who ruined whom... in their current form they need some work. They're business practices are shoddy, they're overpriced, the service isn't spectacular, they make stupid changes to every phone they get by adding crapware and modifying the UI, and relentlessly push one phone (the iPhone) over all others... no matter how many times you tell them you don't want it. They need to look at some other carriers as models and make changes accordingly. Then maybe they will be good enough so I don't have to bitch about them every time I pay my bill.
Too bad that the coverage in this area (mountains of SW PA), AT&T is the only way to get reliable signal. Verizon isn't great around here and you can forget about Sprint and T-Mobile.