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The AT&T Wireless brand was retired by Cingular on April 26, 2005, six months after the close of the merger. This was per a pre-spinoff agreement with AT&T Corp. that stated that if AT&T Wireless was to be bought by a competitor, the rights to the name AT&T Wireless and the use of the AT&T name in wireless phone service would revert to AT&T Corp.
Cingular Wireless was purchased by AT&T, as part of AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth in 2006. The Cingular brand was officially wiped off the face of the earth in 2007 and replaced with the AT&T name.
Pacific Bell Wireless, LLC is a wireless operating division of AT&T Mobility. [1] Pacific Bell Wireless is legally known as Pacific Bell Wireless, LLC d/b/a Cingular Wireless. [citation needed] It was founded in the mid-1990s, initially named Pacific Bell Mobile Services, as a means for Pacific Telesis to capitalize on the wireless market it ...
A large number of AT&T Mobility employees are unionized, belonging to the Communications Workers of America. The CWA represented roughly 15,000 of the previous 20,000 formerly AT&T Wireless employees as of early 2006. [12] As of the end of 2009, the CWA website claims that roughly 40,000 workers of AT&T Mobility are represented by the union. [13]
More: Tens of thousands report AT&T service outage; company 'working urgently' to restore service Shelby County Communications District recommended these steps for Android users to connect to Wi ...
"We have restored wireless service to all our affected ... “We are aware of an issue impacting AT&T wireless customers from making and receiving any phone calls (including to 911),” the San ...
AT&T Wireless was sold to Cingular in 2004 to become the nation's largest wireless carrier. Following the sale of McCaw Cellular, McCaw took interest in Nextel , a then-floundering wireless carrier. By April 1995 McCaw gained effective control of the company contributing, along with his brothers, $1.1 billion over time.
A massive service outage is affecting AT&T customers across the U.S., including the Dallas-Fort Worth area.