On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:47:11 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote:

>With the decision of AT&T to eliminate the Cingular branding in favor of
>calling its wireless service "AT&T" it's time to phase out usage of the
>alt.cellular.cingular Usenet group in favor of the alt.cellular.attws group.
>
>I suggest the following transition strategy:
>
>1. New threads should be posted to both alt.cellular.cingular and
>alt.cellular.attws, until June 30th 2007.
>
>2. Follow-up posts to threads that are only posted on
>alt.cellular.cingular should add alt.cellular.attws, but keep
>alt.cellular.cingular until June 30th 2007.
>
>3. Beginning July 1st 2007, new threads should be posted only to
>alt.cellular.attws.
>
>4. Beginning July 1st 2007, follow-up posts to threads that are only
>posted on alt.cellular.cingular, should remove alt.cellular.cingular,
>and add alt.cellular.attws.
>
>I think that this will work well. Look at how quickly
>alt.cellular.t-mobile replaced alt.cellular.gsm.carriers.voicestream.
>The latter group now has very, very, few postings.


Will the new moniker for AT&T's wireless be ATTWS?, or just AT&T,
in which case ATTWS would be just as incorrect as a Cingular labeled
group. Isn't there still a Voicestream group ?? YES THERE IS.

Sorry SBC is confusing you.