Tell me about it. In 2003, I bought a cell phone plan with AT&T Wireless. They've since been bought out by Cingular who has since changed their name to AT&T.
When calling in for questions, I'm still in the habit of asking if the person is a "blue" or "orange" agent as the "blue" agents were from AT&T and the "orange" are from the Cingular side of the house. The "blue" agents are still friendly and helpful. The "orange" agents would rather rain agent orange down on you than help you. -----Original Message----- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rev. Stewart Marshall Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:34 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Comcast puts on the brakes In 1984 Judge Green forced AT&T to divest itself of the baby bells. They all became separate and independent companies who no longer had to buy equipment from AT&t etc. After 1984 Western Electric became AT&T manufacturing (I know my dad worked for them at this time) The plants got smaller and smaller because the baby bells did not have to buy from mama bell anymore and all did their own thing. I believe that there are no phones manufactured in the US anymore. Most of the old Western plants are all closed. Later on A&T manufacturing got spun off as Lucent, they combined with Avaya (sic) and then they got absorbed by Alcatel. AT&T got ealner and worse off. The Baby Bells have become bigger than their parent and yes they are converging back. No doubt about it, but the new AT&T is not the old AT&T. Stewart At 11:21 PM 9/17/2008, you wrote: >>By the way the AT&T they talked about in the article no longer >>exists. The new AT&T is actually one of the baby bells that was >>divested in 1984. > >Are you sure about that? Start by clicking on some of the links. > >You should be done reading by say, late October. And I know >you're a fast reader. >Early in my career an older and wiser employee said, "You think >the phone company broke up? You're wrong." >Culturally Verizon/Nynex/Bell Atlantic/GTE/MCI and SBC/Bell >South/Ameritech/AT&T/Pacific Telesis, and Qwest are basically >all Bell System components. > >Except that now they all play in all arenas as far as transport is >concerned. Equipment and R&D are still separate but convergence >is inevitable. > >We are heading in the direction of what we had before all of the >regulation. > >I'm going to get in trouble for saying that. > > > > > > >*********************************************************************** ** >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >*********************************************************************** ** Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL 82 ************************************************************************ * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************ * ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
