T-Mobile selling off to AT&T

"Todd Allcock" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just thought of a possible consequence of an AT&T (neé Cingular)
> acquisition of T-Mo that's too horrible to contemplate...
>
> ...John Navas might start posting his Cingular FAQs in alt.cellular.t-
> mobile as well! :-0

That reminds me how stupid that name "Cingular" was. I'm not surprised
that soon after that company bought AT&T, they renamed the combination
to AT&T. BTW, anybody remembers what Cingular's name was before they
adapted that stupid name?

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On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:41:54 -0700, Steve Sobol wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Krazee Brenda says...
>
>> Are yours? Mine are not then most of the people that call me don't
>> drool and are sober.
>
> LOL! No, the people that call me are not drunk either. If I listen to
> the voicemails, it's pretty easy to understand them. The transcription
> just sucks.
>
> Although... you aren't the only person who's told me they have no
> problems with the transcription.

Now that you are being reasonable and not staring at my tits, I agree,
it runs both ways.
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:45:05 -0700, Steve Sobol wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Cheese
> Eating Surrender Monkey says...
>
>> GV has taken the route of having VT as a learned not bought
>> technology. In the long run, this will serve its customers best. GV VT
>> is an international project and is highly complex, only time solves VT
>> issues.
>
> Lots of time, apparently. I was a Google Voice user back when it was
> GrandCentral, before Google bought the company.... and there were
> problems back then, too.
>
>
>> Anyhoo you can turn off VT and the number of other GV features are
>> incredible. Free. Incredibly free.
>
> I'm not discounting the value of the Google Voice service. Only the
> transcription is useless (and I generally leave it turned on anyhow,
> because it's no big deal to leave it turned on).

I was a GC user, going on three or four years now. IMO, GV is not
ready for prime time and I am a bit surprised at that. It must be a
very complex thing to work out and Sprint users are going to notice
the glitches.

Customer service is nonexistent, all area codes are not covered,
"Unknown Caller" IDs are an issue. Will Sprint folks be able to use
GV for business, that's a supposed no-no.

Don't go accessing the desktop interface with too many IP addresses,
Google no likey that.
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On 3/20/2011 9:49 PM, Todd Allcock wrote:

> ...John Navas might start posting his Cingular FAQs in alt.cellular.t-
> mobile as well! :-0

Oh geez, why did you have to give him that idea?!

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:12:47 -0700, "Cameo" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>"Todd Allcock" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I just thought of a possible consequence of an AT&T (neé Cingular)
>> acquisition of T-Mo that's too horrible to contemplate...
>>
>> ...John Navas might start posting his Cingular FAQs in alt.cellular.t-
>> mobile as well! :-0
>
>That reminds me how stupid that name "Cingular" was. I'm not surprised
>that soon after that company bought AT&T, they renamed the combination
>to AT&T. BTW, anybody remembers what Cingular's name was before they
>adapted that stupid name?

In my area, it was BellSouth Mobility.

Steve Sobol <[email protected]> wrote:

>Google Voice's transcriptions are crap.

agree!

pretty dismal!

Krazee Brenda <[email protected]> wrote:

>I dumped my smartphone,

why?

what did you go to?

"The Ghost of General Lee" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>That reminds me how stupid that name "Cingular" was. I'm not surprised
>>that soon after that company bought AT&T, they renamed the combination
>>to AT&T. BTW, anybody remembers what Cingular's name was before they
>>adapted that stupid name?
>
> In my area, it was BellSouth Mobility.

It was something else in the Seattle area, but I don't remember what.

In article <[email protected]>, Todd Allcock
<[email protected]> wrote:

> > > I just thought of a possible consequence of an AT&T (neé Cingular)
> > > acquisition of T-Mo that's too horrible to contemplate...
> > >
> > > ...John Navas might start posting his Cingular FAQs in alt.cellular.t-
> > > mobile as well! :-0
> >
> > he's going to shill for at&t now.
>
> You mean "again."

i was referring to his going on and on about how wonderful t-mobile is
'in the areas people care about' (weasel words), despite numerous
independent customer surveys showing that t-mobile coverage is very
weak compared to other carriers.

"Cameo" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

"The Ghost of General Lee" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>That reminds me how stupid that name "Cingular" was. I'm not surprised
>>that soon after that company bought AT&T, they renamed the combination
>>to AT&T. BTW, anybody remembers what Cingular's name was before they
>>adapted that stupid name?
>
> In my area, it was BellSouth Mobility.

>>It was something else in the Seattle area, but I don't remember what.

In the Seattle MSC, when the 1900MHz PCS licenses were auctioned by the FCC,
it was originally won by GTE Wireless, who built and operated a system for a while.

When Verizon was formed, they had to divest the property because Airtouch
(US West Cellular before that) was the legacy B side 800MHz carrier in Seattle.

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:34:56 -0700, Cameo wrote:

> "The Ghost of General Lee" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>That reminds me how stupid that name "Cingular" was. I'm not surprised
>>>that soon after that company bought AT&T, they renamed the combination
>>>to AT&T. BTW, anybody remembers what Cingular's name was before they
>>>adapted that stupid name?
>>
>> In my area, it was BellSouth Mobility.
>
> It was something else in the Seattle area, but I don't remember what.

Southern or Southwestern of Northwestern Bell....
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In article <[email protected]>, Todd Allcock
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Obviously the nation's best carrier/phone is whatever John is using at
> the moment!

it's whatever who is paying him wants it to be. he's a paid shill. his
preferences change like the wind.

"NessNet" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In the Seattle MSC, when the 1900MHz PCS licenses were auctioned by
> the FCC, it was originally won by GTE Wireless, who built and operated
> a system for a while.

Yes, I remember GTE wireless.

> When Verizon was formed, they had to divest the property because
> Airtouch (US West Cellular before that) was the legacy B side 800MHz
> carrier in Seattle.

I remember that, too. The names of these cell companies changed so
often over the years due to aquisitions and mergers that I could not
keep up with them after a few years.

Todd Allcock wrote on [Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:45:22 -0600]:
> At 21 Mar 2011 18:59:49 -0500 nospam wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>, Todd Allcock
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > > > I just thought of a possible consequence of an AT&T (neé Cingular)
>> > > > acquisition of T-Mo that's too horrible to contemplate...
>> > > >
>> > > > ...John Navas might start posting his Cingular FAQs in
> alt.cellular.t-
>> > > > mobile as well! :-0
>> > >
>> > > he's going to shill for at&t now.
>> >
>> > You mean "again."
>>
>> i was referring to his going on and on about how wonderful t-mobile is
>> 'in the areas people care about' (weasel words), despite numerous
>> independent customer surveys showing that t-mobile coverage is very
>> weak compared to other carriers.
>
>
> I know- I was just pointing out that until he switched from Cingular/AT&T
> to T-Mo, he waxed equally poetic about AT&T. And before he bought his
> Android phone, smartphones were too bulky and didn't do anything his
> RAZR, then Sony-Ericsson TM-506, couldn't do.
>
> Obviously the nation's best carrier/phone is whatever John is using at
> the moment!

Careful, he's like the Candyman or Beetlejuice, say his name too many times
and he shows up

Cameo wrote on [Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:47:00 -0700]:
> "NessNet" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> In the Seattle MSC, when the 1900MHz PCS licenses were auctioned by
>> the FCC, it was originally won by GTE Wireless, who built and operated
>> a system for a while.
>
> Yes, I remember GTE wireless.
>
>> When Verizon was formed, they had to divest the property because
>> Airtouch (US West Cellular before that) was the legacy B side 800MHz
>> carrier in Seattle.
>
> I remember that, too. The names of these cell companies changed so
> often over the years due to aquisitions and mergers that I could not
> keep up with them after a few years.

GTE Mobilenet, Cellular One, etc.