Comments on: Buh-bye Cingular!

By: cathy mcke

cathy mcke — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:03:26 +0000

two years ago we bought my prepaid phone and had at&t provide service, then cingular took over (what a rage they bring out of me) and now say i can no longer buy phone cards as of Dec 31 06.and march 31 07 can no longer use my phone. What is any right or recourse or compensation i may have? any info would help before i do communication battle with them. I would not have bought my still fully functional yet serviceless phone had i known this was possible.Damn cingular! I'm sorry readers,I'm not mad at you, of course. But i've been in states of anger because of the constant poor service, advertising on my time and messing me up on important calls/texting.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:11:41 +0000

Typically, if you are under contract with a provider and they cease to exist because they were bought out, the contracts no longer have to be binding and even though At&t won't be sending a letter out to notify anyone, I suggest you call and let them know that your contract is no longer valid and you wish to terminate it.
You do have to initiate the call or better yet, write them a certified letter.
This happened to me a few years ago with another provider and I closed my account because the contract was no longer with the original company and they complied.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:33:48 +0000

I had nothing but problems with Cingulare. Rude service people and continously dropped calls. both Verizon and TMobile worked much better. When I had AT&T previously I had no problems whatsoever!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:52:54 +0000

As a Cingular customer, I wonder if I will be asked to change anything, or if my contract will still be binding. Does anyone know if this will have any effect of current Cingular customers?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:36:18 +0000

Bad idea
American Telephone and Telegraph
makes me think of wires, wires, and more wires.
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid
Re-think it boys

By: History of mistakes repeating themselves

History of mistakes repeating themselves — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:16:02 +0000

Cingular did it well enough to become the largest U.S. Network...

AT&T, being the bloated corporate behemoth that it is, has been pretty consistent with pissing off it's customers, and generally turning people off; due to this, it's a terrible idea to get rid of a brand that works.

You can certainly wrote off Cingular now,
the AT&T BORG will certainly destroy what's left of the reputation before phase it out, and boot out the people that made it work.

=/

By: Say it aint so!

Say it aint so! — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:08:31 +0000

This is sooo stupid! I'm used to the Cingular name as “raising the bar” and being the largest! The concept of history is usually good, however all of the revamping of AT&T leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I can accept them as part of Cingular, but the other way around leaves me feeling negative. Now I will have to re-think my wireless provider choice.