I JUST HEARD THIS GOING AROUND AND ITS LIKE NOT TRUE AND ALL BUT DOSE ANY ONE KNOW
2007-01-19 05:03:49 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cell Phones & Plans
No cingular bought AT&T. But now they are reorganizing and cingular is being dropped. It will now be AT&T. Amazing how many times AT&T was broken up, bought, and sold that they are coming back together and becoming AT&T once again.
2007-01-19 05:10:34 · answer #1 · answered by logan 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
ATT co-owned Cingular with Bell South. Now that ATT bought out Bell South, it also owns 100% of Cingular.
2007-01-19 13:11:57 · answer #2 · answered by snvffy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay. SBC and Bell south owned cingular orginally. Cingular bought AT +T wireless. Later SBC bought AT+T and changed their name to AT+T then the new AT+T bought the rest of the companies with a share in cingular so they own cingular. Which they are changing to AT+T wireless. So cingular is still technically owned by SBC but have changed their name to AT+T
2007-01-19 13:08:42 · answer #3 · answered by novae2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well...in simple terms yes. But in reality they owned it.
Cingular was formed by Bell South and AT&T, a few years ago then Cingular bought out AT&T Wireless.
Now Bell South was bought out by or merged with AT&T. Therefore, they want to get rid of the name Bell South and Cingular and just use AT&T again.
2007-01-19 13:08:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is true. It was in the news and online a few days ago. At present, At&T will be adding their logo to the Cingular one...eventually Cingular will just go away.
2007-01-19 13:06:36 · answer #5 · answered by Enchanted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they did. First Cingular bought out AT&T's wireless, but now ATT bought out SBC, which is a parent company of Cingular. Now they're switching back.
2007-01-19 13:08:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
SBC owned Cingular before it became at&t. So technically, at&t did not buy out cingular, it just inherited it from the merging. although i also heard that cingular is going to be renamed to at&t wireless.
2007-01-19 13:09:07 · answer #7 · answered by il signore 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually its the other way around Cingular Wireless LLC Tuesday said it has agreed to buy AT&T Wireless for around $41 billion.
2007-01-19 13:07:42 · answer #8 · answered by Cesar G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is true. I was a previous Cingular customer.
2007-01-19 13:06:27 · answer #9 · answered by WillsBroncoGal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cingular bought at & t wireless. As far as I know, the land line part of the company is not affected.
2007-01-19 13:06:28 · answer #10 · answered by packy 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋