Comments on: Why the AT&T and Cingular Merger Sucks

By: Whatever

Whatever — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:51:19 +0000

“Also I want the world to know that Cingular Wireless is hosting Gay and Lesbian Apperciation Month in July. So if that tells you anything at all about the company there you go…….. As far as I am concernered the company is being run by Satan himself……….”

Dude, they could be buttfucking sheep all over the service center for all I care, as long and the price is right and the perks are cool it’s fine for me.

By: chovy

chovy — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:38:48 +0000

I just bought a Virgin Mobile Pay-As-You-Go phone with $20 card. It was $40 total at Target – not bad, but they immediately signed me up with a monthly service fee of $14.99 that would get me 10 cents per minute instead of 18 cents per minute.

That is BS in my opinion. The operator reverted back to the pay-as-you-go plan so it’s 18 cents per minute (no monthly fee).

And yes, phone companies *always* charge you for a complete minute. Even land-lines function like that.

By: ODIN

ODIN — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:34:28 +0000

I just got this pay as you go crap, it charges you a minute for 30 seconds, which means they’ve actually decided to CHANGE what the meaning of TIME is to the equation 1 minute = 2 minutes. After exhausting those minutes, I try to reload the phone with a credit card both on the phone and online and that service is “down”. I can’t even give them more money?? Good thing I didn’t have an emergency I guess. I’m just glad I DIDN’T sign a contract like they tried to talk me into.

By: shanen

shanen — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:49:40 +0000

If I were to buy a company that provides a service to a custmer for a price, I would not serigate the custmers, If I am a fuckin att custmor, why the hell does my bill say cingular at the top. shouldnt I be writing my $59.00 chek out to at&frikint. This is soo iritating. and I was with At&t scence 1994. I will migrate to another company, yes i will, fuckem

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:48:05 +0000

I initially had ATT wireless service, which was so horrible I had to dump them. I was blacked out in so many areas you wouldn’t believe it. The worse area was on the block where I live, where it started to get crappy, to my apartment building; where it completley shut down. I felt conned, because the service was okay the first few weeks, then all of a sudden the crappy reception came about. I questioned the Customer Care reps, and was told “all phones have problems in those types of area”. I found that to be a blatant lie, because many a day I would be getting nothing while someone with a different carrier is standing right next to me chatting away! As soon as my contract was up, it was dumping time for ATT. I couldn’t stand them anyway because when they send you a bill, it’s nasty, rude and it as if they want you to pay YESTERDAY. I was happy that my local phone company – SBC – was providing wireless service at that time, and so I signed up with them.

SBC had a combined billing plan, and for some reason which i never figured out, as soon as I signed up for phone service (wireless) with them (CINGULAR?SBC at the time) they started getting really agressive and threatening with billing. Like ATT, as soon as I got a bill I also recieved phone calls, and threatening notices. I was told that “because my phone options have changed” I was being placed on restrictions and must pay my bill within 7 days of whenever I got it – or else face further punishment for doing nothing but being a loyal long time customer. I just think I was not thier preferred demographic. Well, at least they had the due dates on thier bill – ATT just sent a “PAY WHEN RECIEVED” notice, with no clue as to when it was sent, or what the actual due date was… assholes. Needless to say, I shipped those phones right back to them and dealt with Cingular directly. Cingular people WERE nice BACK THEN (before the merger).

Cingular service was perfect up until the merger. I don’t know what they did to screw it up, but after almost two years of good service with Cingular, I am back to the crappy ATT performance. The ATT customer care people (in my neighborhood) weren’t given a crash course in customer service, either – they are still nasty, ghetto, and rude like a spreading virus in the Cingular system now. The last time I was in a Cingular store I waited 30 minutes to buy a fucking phone clip while the ignorant ass employees / friends chatted away… the excuse for that bullshit was “she was buying a phone” – but what does gossip about her momma, friends, the party, her baby daddy, and her freakin’ outfit have to do with buying a phone? They go in the back “looking for a product” and go to sleep, then come out with some crappy excuse as to why it was so hard to find. If anyone needs time restrictions, it’s the idiots they hire in those phone centers. Let a buddy come in and nobody has anything better to do than to listen to your pathetic chatter all fucking day, inconsiderate ATT refuge bastads.

So now I’m back to square one. I was doing my damnest to get rid of all that’s ATT in my life – but now they want to FORCE themselves on me. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that they acquired SBC also – so now I have to find new residential service… I’m looking at thier “letter of demand” right now…

By: DJprosound99

DJprosound99 — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:29:18 +0000

I had cingular in like 2000 there service was teriable. THen i went to att i loved them and miss them so much. there is rumors that att and t has percurched cingular. I know this sounds weird but i think its a stock thing or mabee just a name change to attract new customs from cingular shity deals.
I read all over the net and i agree with everone we are pickey with our plans and are greedy, but we have a reason to be att spoiled us and we wont that back. with att u can get a phone every year and great amount of min for a good price. If u could get a car all the options for half the price then someone bought the company then charged double price would u not miss that company regradless of there flaws ?
I think that it is unfair for us not to have the same plans w/ cingular that we where used to its only fair, But u know what that is big bussiness and it just sucks there nothing we can do about but not go to cingular and fight for our rights agenst big bussiness that wont to rip us off to make them self rich and us poorer.

Can someone inform me on this att cingular thing whats going on if att is returning w/ its good plans or not.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:40:28 +0000

As a former employee of Cingular I just want everyone to know that Cingular Wireless, T-mobile, ATTWS are all using the same network. As to the guy who said Seimens makes the worst phones….Seimens built the entire Cingular GSM network. There are dozens of factors that will effect coverage at any given time. Which include tower congestion, data channel availibility ( voice calls take priority over data calls so data calls get bumped to make more room on the tower during heavy traffic.)National Security personell have priority over all other customers. Weather, geographic conditions, man made obstructions, and power grid outages all can effect the ability to receive service. So no matter who you go with cellular is cellular.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ROTFL, dude, you really don’t know how wireless carriers work. No one is going to give you a $50 phone for $10 for nothing. The reason AWS had so much better plans is to inflate the sales price, they were offering “beat-all” promos for contract extensions right before the acquisiotion, so that they can say “Look Cingular, we have so many customers locked in” we want $41B for them. If you want to switch to Cingular, you can buy a phone at a discounted price (called Blue-to-Orange migration), but no one is going to give you an acquisition price. You are NOT a new customer, so therefore your “they don’t let me switch via a website” whining is bullshit, you think you are the smartest? Wireless companies don’t get phones for $25 and sell them for $169.99. They pay a LITTLE ($5 – 50) lesser price than retail, but sell the phones for even less, so they lose money. They recuperate the loss on your monthly service. So if you wanna keep your plan, STFU and pay retail price for the phone and buy it directly from Siemens (so it is not SIM-locked), if you wanna be a freeloader, get a discount but switch to a regular Cingular plan (if you compare Cingular offers to other companies and coverage, they are still good). If you wanna cancel, and re-sign up to get a good deal, this is called “phantom churn”, you will end up being billed full price for the phone. Read the contract, you are so naive. It says if you cancel and re-sign up within 180 days, you are not eligible for acquisition promos. They will just reisnate your account and you will end up with your old plan and a bill for full retail price of the phone, and a different phone number. Here’s good news – they’ll let it fly the first time.

By: chovy

chovy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

LOL, That was great.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Get to T-mobile, get a V600 cash back WITHOUT rebates, 1 year contract, and then see if it is worth going back to Cingular a year later.

All this cellular bullshit is a service we should not have in first place. But unfortunately most of us require it. So maximize the offers as much as you can.

Check these deals:
http://www.acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=296021

oh, and btw, 2 year contract is bullshit too.