[COLUG] AT&T and other names

[Edward Dunagin]

A certain Judge must be rolling in his grave..<grin>

Edward Dunagin-Dunigan
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:
> Warner Moore wrote:
>>       I generally wouldn't recommend AT&T for anything but I do have good
>> experience with U-Verse.
>
> Keep in mind that what is now known as AT&T is not what we used to know as
> AT&T.  The local-wire service is the company formerly known as SBC (the
> baby bell that absorbed most of the others), which bought the old AT&T
> long-distance company and then renamed itself.  (Reminiscent of SCO.)
>
> The wireless-phone service is what used to be called Cingular (and is not
> to be confused with the earlier AT&T Wireless company), but became part
> of SBC/AT&T when the latter bought BellSouth.
>
> Time for another divestiture, I think.
>
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