AT&T/BellSouth: Will Cingular Get Any Better?

Much hubbub yesterday and of course this morning about the AT&T deal to buy BellSouth.

And while these deals are great for the deal brokers and company executives, they have mixed results when it comes to making the winning company any better (let's take HP and Compaq deal, for example).

At the bottom of the pile is the lowly customer, left to wonder if this is going to cost him or her more or less. Or how about making life easier? In fact, wasn't the original breakup of Ma Bell supposed to do both?

Anyway, let's see how this deal pans out, but can they at least get better coverage for their Cingular Wireless network? In my house, through extensive testing, Sprint and Verizon are in a dead heat for consistent, all-the time cell phone coverage. In third place (waaaay behind), is -- can you guess? -- Cingular, with coverage that is spotty at best.

Like I said, let's see what the future will bring ...

| 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Listed below are links to sites that reference AT&T/BellSouth: Will Cingular Get Any Better?:

AT&T/BellSouth: Will Cingular Get Any Better? TrackBack URL : http://blog.tmcnet.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/23809

Leave a comment

Recent Activity

Friday

  • Tom Keating posted VoIP in Google ChromeOS
  • Tom Keating tweeted, "VoIP in Google ChromeOS: Google released their ChromeOS operating system yesterday. So naturally, as a VoIP fan I w... http://bit.ly/3T68Ox"

Thursday

More...

Recent Comments

  • precoz: I am wondering, if the VOIP market is still increasing read more
  • Dustin: But that's not the point at all. The majority of read more
  • commangerYEK: Nicely done! read more
  • bstella: How did you get an email address to write to read more
  • Paul: Hi Mike, For Cisco (and normal SIP) passive VoIP recording read more
  • redshirt6: Yes, dying to know if it worked! rs6 read more
  • bruno.clermont: SkypeOut work only if I added their phone number as read more
  • bruno.clermont: I just installed it and try to do some call. read more
  • Kris: Tom, I'm curious. Did you ever get any resolution on read more
  • dsi r4: This is the age of smart phone.Nimbuzz launches it's phone read more

Subscribe to Blog

Recent Entry Images

  • google-chromos-flaphone-voip.jpg
  • startech-conxit-tool.jpg
  • thanksgiving-turkey.jpg
  • verizon-island-of-misfit-toys.jpg
  • mindtouch-cloud.jpg
  • microsoft-windows-20-history.jpg
  • taylor-randall-the-price-is-right.jpg
  • fring-google-android-skype.png
  • gotomeeting-logo.gif

Category Archives

Around TMCnet Blogs

Latest Whitepapers

TMCnet Videos