Re: Transition from alt.cellular.cingular to alt.cellular.attws

The company may not be called "at&t wireless" but for the sake of thise
group it can denote the wireless portion of at&t to keep it from dirgressing
into discussion about the other portions of their business such as
landlines.

I say keep the attws to keep the discussion wireless related.

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote in message
news:elmop-733F8F.17593719012007@nntp2.usenetserver.com...
> In article <45afa490$0$68972$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>
>> With the decision of AT&T to eliminate the Cingular branding in favor of
>> calling its wireless service "AT&T" it's time to phase out usage of the
>> alt.cellular.cingular Usenet group in favor of the alt.cellular.attws
>> group.
>
> Why?
>
> attws stands for AT&T Wireless.
>
> AT&T Wireless doesn't exist.
>
> Does AT&T intend to brand their cellular service AT&T Wireless? If not,
> this is a silly proposal.
>
> And it's a silly proposal UNTIL they brand it AT&T Wireless.
>