[ale] OT: Cellphone wierdness

unicron unicron at cybertron.madhorizons.com
Thu May 11 10:30:44 EDT 2006


In many parts of the country Cingular Wireless and former ATT Wireless have merged into one network. Both of the networks operate as one business meaning that billing, provisioning, etc are part of the same system.  All ATT wireless is managed by Cingular now.



On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:00:20PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Warren Myers wrote:
> > Isn't AT&T Wireless the same as Cingular?
> 
> Not really.  Internally within Cingular they are still different 
> systems.  Cingular is managed/run out of Atlanta, ATTW out of Seattle. 
> I think that Cingular is positioning the former ATTW as Cingular Business.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> > But anyways, I've been having some weird issues with my cell (Verizon) 
> > the past week or so, and got my first text spam earleir this week.
> 
> Heck, to me, a spam txt msg would be more interesting than a blank one. :-)
> 
> Thx,
> 
> -Jim P.
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