supergirl
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| reply to fiberguy
Re: Any info on why?
said by fiberguy  :AT&T did NOT have a good name with people.. in the real world it wasn't well liked. It only had one thing going; it had name recognition. As a company, AT&T was was not consumer friendly.. they violated law after law... and they didn't do much innovating for years. They purchased a good cable conglomerate and gutted and fillet it and left those customers to rot. I'm sorry to disagree with you but AT&T was a horrible company.. even outside BBR. (And I don't agree with BBR very often) AT&T was so brilliant they invented the transistor and sold it to the Japanese for $50,000. The breakup of AT&T was a great thing. Before, you rented a POS phone. Now, you can buy your own.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to hottboiinnc
No commercials say "at&t Wireless", they just say "at&t". That was my point  |
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Guy Waters
join:2001-12-04
San Francisco, CA
| reply to morbo
Just remember it's the SBC executives at the helm of the new AT&T. SBC only purchased AT&T for the nationwide name recognition and the nationwide network backbone. Other than that they had no other real intrerst in the company.
It was Cingular as a joint venture of SBC/BellSouth that purchased the original AT&T Wireless and merged it into the Cingular brand name. Then changed the name to AT&T Mobility after purchasing BellSouth.
SBC has been sucessful in highlighting the blame for bad service on the AT&T name. |
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Guy Waters
join:2001-12-04
San Francisco, CA
| reply to EPS
It was politics. SBC couldn't purchase AT&T Wireless while they were in a joint venture with BellSouth in Cingular. Once SBC purchased BellSouth they could then resurect the AT&T name.
My personal opinion is SBC wanted 100% control of Cingular and it was less expensive to purchase all of BellSouth than to purchase BellSouth's 40% of Cingular. |
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morbo
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| said by Guy Waters :My personal opinion is SBC wanted 100% control of Cingular and it was less expensive to purchase all of BellSouth than to purchase BellSouth's 40% of Cingular. how do you figure? without cingular's profit for bellsouth, they could have watched as the company slowly withered away on the vine and then plucked it up a few years later. a la qwest. |
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morbo
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said by Guy Waters :SBC has been sucessful in highlighting the blame for bad service on the AT&T name. !!! no they haven't. |
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I thought Callvantage was sonus based which about the best, most scalable on the market? |
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