"Sprint Sells Service To AT&T Mobile"

Profit. Sprint also wholesales service to Virgin Mobile, Qwest, and others.

p.s. Please don't switch posting styles (top vs bottom) in mid-thread -- it's
confusing, and considered a bit rude. Thanks.


In <cuaId.12774$nt.7630@fed1read06> on Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:55:36 -0800, "Mij
Adyaw" <[email protected]> wrote:

>This response does not explain why Sprint is selling service to ATT Mobile?
>WASSUP with that?
>
>"Jeremy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
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>> "John Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, at 17:45:30 [GMT GMT] (04:45:30 Tuesday, 18 January
>>> 2005 where I live) "John Navas" wrote:
>>>
>>> > Starting in the first half of 2005, AT&T will begin marketing
>>> > Sprint's service after it wins back rights to its name, owned by
>>> > Cingular after the merger.
>>>
>>> Why would Cingular allow that to happen?
>>
>> When AT&T originally spun of ATTWS, they had a proviso in the agreement
>> that
>> ATTWS had to stop using the AT&T trademarks and logos in the event they
>> merged.
>>
>> Cingular did not, and could not, buy AT&T's logo. I believe that they get
>> to use if for 6 months after the merger date, as they wean ATTWS customers
>> to their network, after which it reverts back to AT&T.

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In <[email protected]> on Fri, 21 Jan 2005
20:11:29 GMT, "Jeremy" <[email protected]> wrote:

>"Jack Zwick" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:jzwick3-
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>> Just the name reverts back. April 23.
>
>I don't follow you--the name, but not the logo, reverts back?

Only the name was licensed, not the logo.

>I did read a press release that AT&T issued, saying emphatically that they
>would be back in the wireless business "the day after" they got their name
>back. ...

Really? Citation?

>... Who knows, AT&T may be setting their
>sights on a new generation of phones. Satellite, like OnStar, maybe??? Who
>knows?

Anyone paying attention -- AT&T has no spectrum, or satellites either.

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