I see the commercials AT&T have about the signal bars
and they show all of them, well I have never had all of the bars I average 3 bars.

I'm in Watertown, Mass. in the metropolitan area of Boston
and one would think being in the top 200 areas in the country it wouldn't be that way.

A couple of weeks ago I went two days of 2 bar s or "no service", wich is what the phone read, that or emergency only.
Now with the merger it hasn't gotten bettter, last night I had to change manually over to Cingular to make a call.

I'm wondering if Cingular is going to keep it that way or
make it worse to force subscribers to dump contracts and change over to a cingular phone making $$$ in the process.

--=B

If I were to buy a phone on ebay, would an att wireless store unlock it for me?

As an old ATT customer, do we now get rollover minutes

just got off the phone with a cingular rep...
and thought I might pass on this info

a) if you have two individual plans on ATTWS
and want to switch to cingular come Nov 15th,
you do NOT *have* to change phones, unless
the old phones are TDMA or so.... you can continue using the existing GSM phones

b) the rep said that they will be able to
unlock the ATTWS phones come Nov 15th !!!

rep sounded pretty confident - are you ?

I have a plan that I am very happy with on the ATT network. I have a share plan at 59.00 a month plus 9.99 each additional phone. I have three phones in all. The biggest thing I like is the 7pm night and weekend starts. I noticed that cingular starts theirs at 9pm unless you pay an extra 7 dollars. I do not need rollover because I never go over my minutes now. Now my question, Can I stay with my current plan, phones, and service. Or will I have to make they switch. I have 18 months remaining on my current contract. Thanks and let me know.

I sure hope that we'll continue to be part of the new integrated company. I've been working for AT&T wireless under Convergys and I know we have good reps and bad reps alike, but we seem to always come close to meeting the criteria that AT&T sets forth upon us. Hopefully Cingular will see this and it reflects their decision making in deciding whether or not they decide to turf us. I don't always enjoy every call that I take, but I sure as hell enjoy my job generally speaking It would bite if I had to look for a new job because I would personally like to re main in the wireless industry. 😢

My GSM phone now reads Cingular Wireless, where it has always read AT&T Wireless.

Wow! That was quick! 🙂

me and a cigarette.

hurry up break. i neeeeed you.

Did anyone rec'v any emails or announcements about the DoJ approving the merger today?

I was out sick today and was curious to know if there was anything put out.

FCC is 'supposed' to announce tomorrow. We'll see.

Thanks...

Just wondering when will they stop selling At&t service plans with all their features or will they keep them around? Any of you able to help on the question?

Hello all. So it is reality. I have been involved in the Dealer side of ATTWS going back to the MaCaw Cell One days. Just thought I would rant a little and be nostalgic for a moment or two. best of luck to all of you involved in the acquisition/merger. Please feel free to add something to the list below. Maybe a top list of sorts.

I remember....

1. landline charges of 6 cents a minute
2. When night and weekend minutes were not seperate buckets and had to be used 1st.
3. When a phone would work on either Carrier, wireline or nonwireline.
4.phones that didn't have caller id
5. The Mitusbishi pocketnet phone, if you dont know this one, dont even ask, lol
6. When Ericsson was partnered with GE for handsets. The GE Ericsson CT-4...
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hard launch of Primus today. and there's latency. what a pile this program is *sigh*

ATT GSM service officially works GREAT at Disneyland and California Disney.

Lately, maybe the last week, I have noticed some problems sending text messages. If the message is close to the maximum allowed characters, sending fails. If I try to send the same message to multiple recipients at once, sending fails. If I try to insert the cheesy clipart (which makes it 3 messages), sending fails. If I write a long message that takes up more than one message, sending fails. I've experienced this on the following phones: Nokia 3200, 6200, 6620, Samsung E316. Anybody else having problems? Even more importantly, can anyone explain? Thanks!

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/041026/telecoms_attwireless_ ... »

Reuters
FCC Approves Cingular's AT&T Wireless Bid
Tuesday October 26, 8:40 am ET


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (News - Websites) said on Tuesday it has conditionally approved Cingular Wireless' $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. (NYSE:AWE - News), clearing the last big hurdle for the deal.

The FCC said it voted to clear the deal on the condition, among others, that the companies sell AT&T Wireless operating units and associated airwaves in 16 markets. It also required them to sell 10 megahertz of airwaves in Dallas and Detroit.

The announcement follows clearance by U.S. antitrust authorities on Monday, who ...
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Has anybody used this?

Is it worth while?

Can you get HTML emails with it?

All help is appreciated.

I just checked my account on the web. It now say's cingular.......

Regulators Let Cingular Buy AT&T Wireless
Merger Will Create Biggest U.S. Cell Firm

By Yuki Noguchi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 23, 2004; Page E01

The $41 billion merger between Cingular Wireless LLC and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. won approval from the Federal Communications Commission yesterday, according to federal sources close to the agency, paving the way for major changes in the lucrative wireless-phone market.

The FCC and Justice Department plan to announce on Monday that both agencies have signed off on the deal, although the regulators will require Cingular to make some concessions in return, according to the sources, who declined to be identified because the decision has not yet been made public.
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I'd like to buy an Audiovox 5600 and add another line to my account. Is there any way to do it? I've been told you can't have that phone with a sharable plan. Seems like some people have it - how can I?

Any advice?

Laura

i get a call, routine suspention for lost or stolen, i go ahead and suspend, tell the cust that he has 30 days before the line cancels itself, anyway, i hop back on here and type a reply, then i get another call...."thanks for holding this is !%!@$!#$ how can i help you today?" and the reply, i think i just talked to you, i was like, ya right which is usually the case, what with (especially today) numerous call centers with the hundreds of agents, on a slow day with almost everyone in auto in....but low and behold it was the same guy calling to reinstate because he found his phone.... has this happened to anyone else? because i was told in training the chances of getting the same cust twice (ever, let alone in a row) is like winning the lott...
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