I just heard from a friend who builds cell towers that now that AT&T has sold the AWS piece of the business to Cingular, they are moving toward leasing from Sprint. Being on AT&T, I'm wondering which network I'd end up on and which equipment would be best to move toward? I didn't understand how this was technically feasible. Has anyone heard anything about this?
....the moving hand writes, and having written, moves on.
What do you mean "...way off topic"? This IS the general forum, right? Obviously one can't tell "tone" in posts and email, etc., but if you meant that comment the way it sounded, take a pill dude.
Originally posted by FirstTimer What do you mean "...way off topic"? This IS the general forum, right? Obviously one can't tell "tone" in posts and email, etc., but if you meant that comment the way it sounded, take a pill dude.
WOW chill out dude... it was originally posted on the i700 forum.. hence tommy247365 said off topic!!!.So please before posting check out where the thread came from...
Yep, this was meant as a general posting, but I jumped out of another thread to post it. Looks to be in the right place now. Sorry for the confusion - I'm still swimming in the shallow end I guess.
Originally posted by brockbay Yep, this was meant as a general posting, but I jumped out of another thread to post it. Looks to be in the right place now. Sorry for the confusion - I'm still swimming in the shallow end I guess.
Originally posted by brockbay I just heard from a friend who builds cell towers that now that AT&T has sold the AWS piece of the business to Cingular, they are moving toward leasing from Sprint. Being on AT&T, I'm wondering which network I'd end up on and which equipment would be best to move toward? I didn't understand how this was technically feasible. Has anyone heard anything about this?
....the moving hand writes, and having written, moves on.
While Cingular purchased the AT&T Wireless, they did not purchase the right to use the AT&T name. AT&T landline, is a seperate company from AT&T Wireless sharing only the name and common logo.
With ATTWS being consumed by Cingular, AT&T landline is now free to have their own wireless offering in which they can offer bundled local, wireless, and long distance phone service, much like Verizon does now, yet without the hassle of running their own wireless network.
If you ask me, the move is very confusing for customers. They could at least wait until the old AT&T Wireless was dismantled by Cingular. I've heard so much chatter about people afraid of losing coverage or having to purchase new phones. That just is not true, no coverage will be lost, although in overlapping markets it is possible that some spectrum could be sold. In the end both AT&T and Cingular customers will benefit from better coverage, at the expense of one less competitor in the market.
But since GSM does not have the coverage of CDMA its a no go in my area. Now if ATT gets a nice package going and covers their butts on the roaming onto VzW networks issues unlike Sprint that could be worth looking into.
Originally posted by equus WOW chill out dude... it was originally posted on the i700 forum.. hence tommy247365 said off topic!!!.So please before posting check out where the thread came from...
Sorry, I don't see anywhere where it says it originally came from the i700 forum. I may be missing it, but I didn't notice, so my apologies for not noticing that as well. I just read the post in the General forum and thought, obviously incorrectly, that it was originally posted in this forum. My oops I guess. Does it indicate somewhere that a post originated in another forum?
1. Existing ATTWS customers become Cingular customers. Keep the same instruments you are using now. Don't worry, be happy.
2. ATT (_not_ ATTWS) starts selling cellular service as an VNO (Virtual Network Operator), like Virgin PCS is now or Qwest PCS will soon become. Their all-new customers buy in with all-new phones. ATT will *likely* deal with SprintPCS but that is not set in concrete, yet.
Last edited by johnbartley : 07-07-2004 at 06:39 PM.
just read the link hatoncat and that sounds nice. i will wonder how that handoff from 802.11x to cdma will work in terms of being in a data call or phone call and how they will adjust the billing... say if its free on the wi fi but then goes to using data minutes how they will handle that...
AT&T Corp to resell Sprint PCS under the name "AT&T Wireless"
If you're currently an AT&T Wireless customer, what's going to happen once the Cingular Wireless & AT&T Wireless merger completes is you'll become a wireless customer of the new company from which my understand is doesn't even have a name yet. AT& T Corp & AT&T Wireless have an agreement which is essence states the name "AT&T Wireless" will be go back to AT&T Corp and after 180 days of the Cingular Wireless & AT&T Wireless merger, will be used by AT&T Corp to resell wireless service of Sprint PCS. Cheers!
AT&T to ride on Sprint?
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