Cingular Sued by Users it Inherited

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I wasn't so much responding to BTD's experience as the general one of the entire class of AT&T customers. According to the article linked, in Southern California Cingular sold off its own network after the purchase and continued to use the AT&T network which I would think means that it was Cingular customers that found themselves suddenly on AT&T equipment and not the other way around.

I think as part of the deal, Cingular sold off some of it's towers (I know T-Mobile bought a bunch to enter the market here) but I think the service service agreement between the companies still allowed for sharing the bandwidth, since both are GSM - it may be that they stopped supporting certain GSM bands, or since Cingular is GSM, they stopped supporting AT&T's other (TDMA?) service.