cacoPremium
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Whittier, AK | reply to baineschile
Re: wow Not the cable company but the media company. In case you had them confused.
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 baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
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Sterling Heights, MI | i did; i had assumed twc |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to caco
One of those two companies should really change their name now that they've separated (I'd assume it'd be the cable company, since they own neither Time nor Warner) |
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baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI Reviews:
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| said by EPS:One of those two companies should really change their name now that they've separated (I'd assume it'd be the cable company, since they own neither Time nor Warner) i actually laughed out loud at that one |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
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San Jose, CA
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said by EPS:One of those two companies should really change their name now that they've separated (I'd assume it'd be the cable company, since they own neither Time nor Warner) One of those two companies will change their name if Comcast buys it. Same as the days when we had "AT&T Broadband Internet", and "AT&T Corporation". Comcast bought ATTBI, and AT&T went on to be ... bought by SBC!
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EPS
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Hingham, MA | There was also "AT&T Wireless Services", which became part of Cingular, and now is at&t again... (It seems like the "AT&T is now Cingular" ads only stopped when they started "Cingular is now 'the new' at&t")
Initially the AT&T Broadband + Comcast was intended to be called "AT&T Comcast", since AT&T Broadband was larger than Comcast was at that time... Now that really would have confused things! |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| said by EPS:There was also "AT&T Wireless Services", which became part of Cingular ... Did not become part of anything. Was sold off by AT&T (which was ever trying to reinvent itself, since 1984, but never quite succeeding). AT&T Wireless was jointly bought by SBC (60% interest) and Bellsouth (40% interest). However, AT&T kept the rights to the AT&T brand, and SBC/Bellsouth had to come up with a new brand for the wireless venture. Hence, "Cingular Wireless".
AT&T eventually went on to be financially troubled, while SBC was in top financial shape; so SBC bought AT&T. Then SBC rebranded itself as AT&T. Then SBC bought Bellsouth (a company which wasn't really financially troubled), thus giving the old SBC (now rebranded as, "AT&T") 100% stake in "Cingular Wireless". So Ed Whitacre (who is now in charge of "Government Motors") rerebranded Cingular Wireless as AT&T Wireless.
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If they changed it to Slime Warner then it would be a differenmt name. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to NormanS
Cingular existed before the AT&T Wireless Services buyout... SBC and BellSouth formed the joint venture out of their pre-existing wireless arms. |
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join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
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There was also "AT&T Wireless Services", which became part of Cingular ...
Colbert explains all that pretty well:
»www.phonenews.com/images/2007/1/···ular.mp4
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Would be expensive to have to rebrand all of their cable boxes, equipment, trucks, remotes, uniforms and so on. |
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