Big article in today's Atlanta Journal Constitution on the Cingular / ATT merger

and the associated technical challenges. Just an FYI.

Also...HP and Cingular Wireless have announced the HP iPAQ hw6500 series
Mobile Messenger, the first Pocket PCs in the United States to use Cingular'
s high-speed EDGE network. Apparently avail is 10/31.

Do you have a URL?

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/...gularearn.html

I had to register to see it.

Actually I think the link below is the one the OP was referring to:

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/sh..._1019_COX.html

Another story on Cingular:

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/..._Cingular.html

A couple of highlights from the above article in the 'Atlanta
Journal-Constitution':

"Last year, when Cingular bought AT&T Wireless for $41 billion, the
newly enlarged Atlanta company jumped ahead of Verizon Wireless to
become the nation's No. 1 cellphone company."

"Staying there will be a challenge. Verizon has a highly regarded
network. A recent consumer survey by J.D. Power & Associates rated
T-Mobile and Verizon as the nation's best-liked carriers. Verizon also
loses fewer customers than Cingular."

"Cingular's customer turnover - or churn - is an important
indicator of whether people are pleased. In the second quarter,
Cingular's churn was 2.2 percent, far greater than Verizon's 1.33
percent."

[POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]

In <Dqt5f.722$Wk4.463@bignews4.bellsouth.net> on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:14:13
-0400, "Craven Morehead" <cmorehead@hotmail.com> wrote:

>and the associated technical challenges. Just an FYI.

"Cingular's acquisition remains a work in progress"
<http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/1005/19cingular.html>
Unfortunately, registration is required.

Most of the story is just anecdotal. The key observation is:

Cingular's customer turnover -- or churn -- is an important indicator of
whether people are pleased. In the second quarter, Cingular's churn was 2.2
percent, far greater than Verizon's 1.33 percent.

To put that in perspective, Cingular's churn was an increase from the prior
quarter, but lower than the year earlier quarter, an increase of only 0.1, and
there was still a net subscriber gain of 876,000. So while there's some
apparent impact from ATTWS-to-Cingular, TDMA-to-GSM, and network integration,
that impact appears to be relatively small and manageable.

See also: "Cingular boosts profit"
<http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/1005/19cingularearn.html>
Again, registration is required.

>Also...HP and Cingular Wireless have announced the HP iPAQ hw6500 series
>Mobile Messenger, the first Pocket PCs in the United States to use Cingular'
>s high-speed EDGE network. Apparently avail is 10/31.

"HP and Cingular team on wireless iPaq"
<http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=853A0A1A-03EA-4A97-91F6-E5FB89C1C289>

--
Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

"GomJabbar" <dkbatson@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:1129739966.171623.138820@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> http://www.ajc.com/business/content/...gularearn.html
>
> I had to register to see it.
>

Use www.bugmenot.com to prevent from having to register to anything else