http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/ Engadget Comments for AT&T / Cingular class action gets go ahead from federal court http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/
To Rogers: Stop being smart, I just want a dumb pipe that transfers data from one point to my PC/PS3. Stop throttling! You are killing my Warhawk games with pings of 1300+ms! I'm not even joking! >(



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"Well on my next bill I may pay 'up to' the total amount." ]]>May 28th 2009 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/
Let me know how that works out.]]>May 29th 2009 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/
Someone please inform me of what I'm missing ]]>May 28th 2009 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/"blue" plans. We didn't make our network worse for old AT&T Wireless customers, but the FCC forces carriers to "give up" towers to make sure they have a competative footprint in all markets for other carriers. If there isn't good coverage in your area it's not the carriers fault, but instead the FCC forcing them to turn down their signal strength so they can force carriers to buy more licenses and control the carriers market saturation.]]>May 29th 2009 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/
From the consumer perspective, there was no "new provider". The same account serviced by the same people using the same equipment behaved worse.]]>May 29th 2009 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 29th 2009 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/
AT&T Corp. spun off its wireless arm a few years before the merger, but there was an agreement it could keep the AT&T name. Then AT&T Wireless was bought by Cingular, jointly owned by SBC Communications Corp. and BellSouth Corp. SBC Communications Corp. then acquired AT&T Corp., but adopted the better-known AT&T name, becoming at&t Inc. (I use lowercase letters for "the new" at&t) Then at&t Inc. acquired BellSouth, giving it full ownership of Cingular, which it renamed at&t after the parent company.]]>May 28th 2009 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/
The old att had some really good cell plans and those guys were holding out , not upgrading and the new att forced them to]]>May 28th 2009 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/
Probably wouldn't help VZW not "suck" (I don't think they suck), because they'd still be CDMA and they'd have already started the whole network reliability campaign, which is the cause of most of their phone delays and crippling.]]>May 28th 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/
False. If any changes happened to your old AT&T account, you got moved over to the Cingular/new at&t system which required a new sim card. If your phone was SIM locked to the old AT&T, you had to buy a new phone. There was also an additional charge of $17 or $34 to update the account. (I never found out the circumstances for charging one value or another.)

I held out for as long as I could, but my old GSM phone was only triband and I found myself in an area that needed the 4th band to get reception. Since I my objective was to get a new phone the requirement to get a new one was not a problem, but I was required to pay the $17 fee for the privilege of paying them more money. I also lost my old $20/month plan which was way more calling than I typically used despite being low end.

The worst part of it is that I was originally on Cingular but I moved to Portland where they had no coverage.]]>May 29th 2009 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/
That is the biggest confusion for all of the people like you out there, these are two different companies here, this isn't the same AT&T that you originally purchased from. Just because they are both named AT&T (at&t) people think it is the same company just trying to screw them.

SBC owns Cingular. Cingular purchased AT&T Wireless. SBC purchases AT&T (not wireless). SBC purchases BellSouth (and changes name to AT&T. So the AT&T you know now, is actually SBC, just rebranded.
http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/02/the-engadget-guide-to-at-t-wireless-cingular-sbc-at-t-merger/]]>May 28th 2009 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 28th 2009 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/No one ever told me my plan was over, or that I'd have to change to Cingular or the new AT&T. I called a few times to check on getting a better plan, and was even told by Cingular reps to keep what I have they couldn't match it.
I've replaced the Moto V600 a long time ago. I think it had SW to stay on AT&T towers even when the signal was not strong enough to make a call. Replacement unlocked & unbranded phones work great. At home with the V600 I couldn't make a call, but with other phones since, I get great reception at home.

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Also f**K time warner cable. They're bullshit as well. Someone needs to sue their ass.]]>May 28th 2009 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 29th 2009 12:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/
I am glad that I switched to t-mobile. I would call it upgrade of carrier.]]>May 29th 2009 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/
I did, 3 months early and killed the Cingular plan the very day my contract expired!]]>May 29th 2009 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 29th 2009 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 29th 2009 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 29th 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atandt-cingular-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-federal-court/May 29th 2009 12:03PM