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I know

So you're sticking it to yourself?

Mabye...]]>Jul 7th 2006 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 7th 2006 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/]]>Jul 7th 2006 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 7th 2006 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/
Bahaha.]]>Jul 7th 2006 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/
So they need to keep the network up and running. They said they would disband it in 2k8. I'm fine with that. But they shouldn't let it go to crap because they want people off of it. That is manipulation and customers shouldn't stand for it. ]]>Jul 7th 2006 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 7th 2006 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/
i have the same car and that same feature. i know its a great to have TDMA, but face it they need to shut that thing down now and get more spectrum for better services such as UMTS. just my opinion]]>Jul 7th 2006 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/
Wait....you have a Mercedes Benz with a built in phone.....

And you want us to feel sympathy for you somehow because you have to upgrade?

Man! The worlds smallest violin just got smaller.

The bottom line is unless it's in the contract, Cingular can RIGHTLY do whatever they want. This overblown sense of entitlement people have now days annoys me to no end.]]>Jul 7th 2006 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 7th 2006 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 7th 2006 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/
It's just plain business sense as well. Do we invest in upkeep for an outdated network a small percent of our subscribers use and lose us money on with ridiculous old school AT&T plans...OR do we inverst in a global technology like GSM that the vast majority of our customers use and make us lots of money with.

And Cingular blue, if you're one of the lucky people who grabbed AT&T GSM when it came out and are grandfathered into your plan, you get the best of both worlds. Great GSM coverage, small AT&T monthly charge. ]]>Jul 7th 2006 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 7th 2006 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/]]>Jul 7th 2006 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/
Haven said that, how intelligent are those putting their names down on the CA suit list? Sounds to me like they were not intelligent in the first place (allowing themselves to be abused by their provider), and not intelligent in the second place (allowing themselves to be abused by the lawyers).

Darwin candidacy is overflowing in America.]]>Jul 7th 2006 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 7th 2006 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/
Yeah, ATT GSM :)]]>Jul 7th 2006 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 7th 2006 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Although I expect a settlement more than anything else... ]]>Jul 7th 2006 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 7th 2006 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/
then you should consider switching instead of bitching. no one was "forced" to move you could have easily switch out without paying an ETF. Cingular/at&t is not your mom telling you what to do. ]]>Jul 8th 2006 3:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/
Derbeste: Xultar didn't ask anybody to "feel sympathy" for him. He just provided a reason that somebody might want the AT&T system to stick around in response to puh_fifer's question. Don't get your panties in a wad because the man has a half-decent car -- even if the built-in phone sucks. I passed on it for my Benz; in 2005 the price had climed to $4400 for a crappy V600-based MB-firmware-locked phone. I hear MB is finally swallowing their pride and "borrowing" the Bluetooth-based open system that Chrysler has made available for many years.]]>Jul 8th 2006 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 8th 2006 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 8th 2006 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 8th 2006 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 8th 2006 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/Jul 8th 2006 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/
As to the topic in hand this is just a stupid lawsuite. TDMA has to go, we always wonder why US cellular technology is way behind Europe and Asia. Well here is one of the answers. American's are so much against change that it get difficult to change these systems. Another answer is we don't wanna pay for anything, we want it all free (hello, grow up people). The system is over 20 years old, u should be happy it's still around and thank god it's going away in 2008, I would just tell Cingular shut it all down now and be done with it. GSM/UMTS needs the space which is like 98% of Cingular business. bye TDMA.....]]>Jul 9th 2006 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/cingular-verizon-slapped-with-class-action-suits/
also, in the west where the lawsuit is focused, legacy cingular has never sold tdma service. it has been gsm only since before 2000, when cingular bought the pac bell properties.

part of the conversion of at&t customers to cingular systems is to add tdma capability to its systems on the west coast.
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