{"id":1962,"date":"2007-01-12T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T21:47:29","slug":"cingular-is-now-att","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/cingular-is-now-att\/","title":{"rendered":"Cingular is now AT&#038;T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del>I have no idea why<\/del>, I have a better understanding now after talking to a Cingular rep, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.att.com\/gen\/press-room?pid=4800&#038;cdvn=news&#038;newsarticleid=23308\">Cingular  Wireless is now AT&#038;T<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>1st Cingular bought out AT&#038;T Wireless in Oct 2004. AT&#038;T Wireless was a stand alone company not owned by AT&#038;T.<br \/>\n2nd <del>AT&#038;T bought out SBC and their mobile carrier, Cingular<\/del> SBC bought out AT&#038;T and dropped the SBC name and became AT&#038;T, due to the world wide brand recognition and admiration<br \/>\n3rd The new AT&#038;T bought out Bell South, a partial owner in Cingular<br \/>\n<del>3rd<\/del>4th After one owner goes away, Cingular changes its name to AT&#038;T to clarify the connection between Cingular and AT&#038;T<\/p>\n<p>Oh brother&#8230; I hope that all made sense. I guess if you&#8217;ve got the money to spend on re-marketing, go for it.<br \/>\nGranted anytime you can gain market recognition and admiration you may as well do it.<br \/>\nA Cingular PR rep told me the new branding of Cingular could take six months or more, similar to when SBC became AT&#038;T.<br \/>\nCingular customers will see no difference in their service or how they pay their bill other than a new name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why, I have a better understanding now after talking to a Cingular rep, but Cingular Wireless is now AT&#038;T. 1st Cingular bought out AT&#038;T Wireless in Oct 2004. AT&#038;T Wireless was a stand alone company not owned by AT&#038;T. 2nd AT&#038;T bought out SBC and their mobile carrier, Cingular SBC bought &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/cingular-is-now-att\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cingular is now AT&#038;T<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[3169,3168,3170,1817],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno","tag-att","tag-cingular","tag-purchase","tag-sale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-vE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}