In article <im8nau$jpk$1@news.eternal-september.org>, Cameo says...
>
> "The Ghost of General Lee" <ghost@general.lee> wrote:
> >>That reminds me how stupid that name "Cingular" was. I'm not surprised
> >>that soon after that company bought AT&T, they renamed the combination
> >>to AT&T. BTW, anybody remembers what Cingular's name was before they
> >>adapted that stupid name?
> >
> > In my area, it was BellSouth Mobility.
>
> It was something else in the Seattle area, but I don't remember what.

SBC was formed by the merger of Ameritech (former AT&T properties in the
Midwest), Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell/Nevada Bell and Southern New
England Telephone.

SBC and BellSOUTH later merged to form the new AT&T.

The corresponding wireless properties made the same switches.

But Seattle has always been Qwest/US West territory.

On the other hand, AT&T's cellular division has always been
headquartered there. I think AT&T Wireless was what Craig McCaw's
original wireless phone service ultimately became.

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