Cingular name to fade away?

John Navas wrote:
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> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:49:21 GMT, "bruceR" <[email protected]> wrote
> in <[email protected]>:
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> >I drove by a Cingular store today in Houston and there, almost as large as
> >the store itself, sat a giant, inflatable AT&T Deathstar! No AT&T (or at&t)
> >lettering, just the ominous, gas filled orb hovering above the store. Looks
> >like a precursor to a name change to me.
>
> AT&T (SBC) has already said it will rebrand Cingular as AT&T if the
> merger with BellSouth goes through. I personally think the Cingular
> brand may be retained within the name AT&T (e.g., AT&T Cingular
> wireless, like a Toyota Camry), for some time at least, but only time
> will tell.

I new that if I hung onto my old AT&T analog phone it would come back
into fashion, Death Star logo and all. ;-)

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The word "Cingular" is derrived from the word "Singular" meaning one single
bar of signal strength. :-)

In alt.cellular.cingular Mij Adyaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> The word "Cingular" is derrived from the word "Singular" meaning one single
> bar of signal strength. :-)
>

I thought it meant that your phone will only work in a "singular" locations,
agreed by many to be an imaginary locations off of the left coast .... with
extended GSM coverage.

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Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
> I new that if I hung onto my old AT&T analog phone it would come back
> into fashion, Death Star logo and all. ;-)

Well, until the push the new settings to your phone...

The Death Star is very cool. I was always a fan of Darth Vader.

"DecaturTxCowboy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
>> I new that if I hung onto my old AT&T analog phone it would come back
>> into fashion, Death Star logo and all. ;-)
>
> Well, until the push the new settings to your phone...

"Mij Adyaw" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> The Death Star is very cool. I was always a fan of Darth Vader.

Bet you didn't know he'd grow up to run Enron!