http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Cingular to take on AT&T name as buyout approved http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgetmobile.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/Jan 2nd 2007 1:30AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/Jan 2nd 2007 3:33AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/
Anti-competitive anti-consumer BS, the lot of it. But one day, we'll all be customers of the one company that delivers us all products and services. SCI-FI is now! Yay!]]>Jan 2nd 2007 3:20AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/Jan 2nd 2007 3:29AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/
so things they have to spend money on to change to new blue..
1. the stores
2. the commercials
3. the network/software
4. promotions of changing to new blue
5. saving the customers.

good luck to ya at&t! youre gonna need it.

R.I.P. Jack]]>Jan 2nd 2007 6:56AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/Jan 2nd 2007 7:15AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/
jack and the globe will be on the commercials til cingular is slowly phased out. the head of jack is not the globe. :)

remember people...just the name is changing..not the network, not the plans, not anything but the name. stores will not lose their orange color til about q3]]>Jan 2nd 2007 9:08AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/Jan 2nd 2007 12:26PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/
To take the AT&T name entirely is to embrace all the good and the bad decisions (mostly the bad), the traditions and all the crazy baggage AT&T has accumulated over the years. You'll have folks across each department saying "We're AT&T now we have to do this the AT&T way". And that way frankly is not going to work in the new century. All I can say is, good luck... you will need it. Nice cushy job tho, you're probably not going anywhere for a while ;D]]>Jan 2nd 2007 10:21AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/
As soon as the switch happened during that faithful October, the service went to hell in a hand basket for both my girlfriend at the time and me. We could no longer get service in our apartment, which before we had full strength. Dropped calls left and right and just over all horrible reception. Customer service couldn't do anything, nor did I get the feel that they even cared, like they were just reading off a bland script. Claiming nothing has changed, but as they put it, "a lot of people have been having problems." You'd think if a lot of people were having problems, they would acknowledge it and fix it? Apparently not, they wouldn't even give me a deal to switch over, which I was more than willing to do to try to fix the problem. Something my counter-part had done, and it fixed nothing, but I had high hopes.

Eventually we dropped Crapular like a bad habit for Verizon, which I couldn't be happier with. I was actually able to get service every where, rarely do I get dropped calls and my experience with their customer service has been 10 fold better. They actually are willing to work with you.

I would like to see Cingular go back to the way of AT&T, which what made them such a great service. I remember getting extra minutes or other service getting thrown on when ever I called customer service, and with out asking. I actually got the feeling they wanted to keep me as a customer, much like Verizon has been to me for the past year and some change. If they do, it will make it hard for me to stay with Verizon, but until then...
]]>Jan 2nd 2007 12:22PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/I'm with you 100% on this one. I never had a problem with ATT wireless. Service or customer service. I was on a corporate plan, and because of that position they would always throw me a free phone whenever I wanted. They would give me minutes whenever I called, without my asking. Their plans were simple and fair. They were a pleasant company. Cingular has more of a corporate feel than ATT. Go ahead and try talking to them to get something down. You get the nameless person telling you all the hoops that need to be jumped through. Give me ATT Wireless back.]]>Jan 2nd 2007 12:57PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/I agree. The Orange splat Jack congers up youth, excitement, now and nextgen. The "globe" just feels like taa, taa, taa, ta, tataa, ta, tataaa. Return of the Corporate DeathStar filled with arbiters of missteps and entitlement storm troopers!!!]]>Jan 2nd 2007 1:41PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/
What I find more disturbing is this: AT&T Wireless gets sold to Cingular (Bellsouth). Bellsouth, a former 'baby bell' of AT&T after the breakup. A few years after that, AT&T in itself 'goes under'... only t be bought out by... Bellsouth (which makes history as the first baby bell to have bought out Ma Bell). And now Cingular is switching back to AT&T wireless. Is it just me, or does everyone else not see what's happened here? That AT&T 'faked' it's own death so that it could merge and re-form bigger than it's been since the break-up? I think we've all been scammed. Either way, I don't care if the new AT&T gives out hand-jobs with every bill, I will never support AT&T out of stubborn principle.]]>Jan 2nd 2007 2:06PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/
Don't look at it as them doing you a favour, it was greed on the part of the late AT&T Wireless (RIP).]]>Jan 2nd 2007 8:10PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/Jan 2nd 2007 5:33PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/
AT&T already does business telecom products (because I've seen their advertisements), why not keep it as is? I liked Frank Black's idea to bring some unity to the personal and business facets of the company. Unless there's an email address we can spam, I'm just gonna start shaking my head when this starts happening.]]>Jan 2nd 2007 5:43PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/Jan 2nd 2007 9:52PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/Jan 3rd 2007 9:21AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/
are you stupid or something? its just a name change your cingular treo WILL still work. did you read what i posted above? probably not. ]]>Jan 3rd 2007 1:18PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/
But I am certain there will be no Blue/Orange Migrating again. That was too much of a pain and Cingular has admitted (plenty of times) that it was more of a hassle than it was ever worth, but it had to be done because of all the different billing systems that were absorbed when AT&T became Cingular. To get everything running in unison, it had to be done.

Fast forward to 2007 and there are STILL two separate activation systems for Cingular -- CARE and TLG. Even so, it's not that big of a deal and the systems are transparent to the consumer.

But as far as this goes, the only things changing are name and image. It is purely a superficial change. I'm still unclear as to *why* they are doing it, but from what I understand it has to do with people having more faith in the AT&T name than in the Cingular name.]]>Jan 5th 2007 10:54AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/
As well CIngular was owned by both SBC and BellSouth.

So Cingular bought AT&T Wireless, but they didn't buy the name, just the customers and such. Because part of the meger stated that if AT&T Wireless was ever bought by a competiter, the name would revert back to AT&T in 6 months. I used to work for AT&T Wireless at the time of the merger, and once that happened we were told to start calling it the 'New Cingular" and "The Former AT&T Wireless" because in 6 months, the AT&T Wireless name wasn't owned by CIngular.

It wasn't until about 2 years later that SBC bought AT&T, thus getting the AT&T Wireless name back, at that time SBC also changed thier name to AT&T.

Plans were announced as well that AT&T (the former SBC) would start reselling Cingular services under the AT&T name in 'bundled' packages. This worried BellSouth though, as they would be in direct compitition with them.

However AT&T bought BellSouth, it is all named AT&T now, and nothing stands in thier way of calling themselves AT&T.]]>Jan 13th 2007 2:05AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/
bkessler's (and my) concern is coming from a valid place of uncertainty, which we have already been through once with the company--and a lot of people don't want to have to go there again.

There are most certainly differences between AT&T devices and Cingular devices, e.g. the MPX220. I had to make changes to mine to get it to work that weren't at all intuitive. To some of us, it's fun to tinker but for the majority, it's a hassle especially after paying so much money.]]>Jan 13th 2007 2:26PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/I'm all for AT&T let's see what they can do for "us" the customers.]]>Jan 17th 2007 8:33AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/02/cingular-to-take-on-atandt-name-as-buyout-approved/Jan 29th 2007 7:22PM