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blue, though? employee-owned or union or some such? that's worth a lot.
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by Cedwyn on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 07:43:12 AM PDT
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Freep this poll!
by spartan68 on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 07:46:48 AM PDT
love the service, love the support, love the price, and if i dont have a tmobile signal, i jump on cingular...no roaming.
i sold cingular for over a year, and honestly, i'd stay away from them. their customer service sucks...period. T-Mobile is the way to go if you want post-paid GSM service, which is pretty much the world standard now
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by Craig Burnham on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 07:49:29 AM PDT
-6.00/-7.18
by TarheelDem on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 07:48:45 AM PDT
in cell phone companies. But it is (today) jointly owned by BellSouth and AT&T (formerly SBC). Soon, AT&T will complete their purchase of BellSouth and it will all be one big happy company.
This is what is known in college-level economics as "a natural monopoly", as are all utilities. (That is, the cost of duplicating distribution never can be covered by the profits available to be made, therefore, a single company always ends up - via Market Forces - the owner. These companies should be REGULATED. This is the fallacy of "de-regulation": what is promised is not possible (you can't get cheaper electricity from 10 providers than you can from one properly regulated single provider.).
Ooops... I disgressed. So... Cingular is not employee owned, but they do have union employees (Communication Workers of America) as does AT&T. Whether AT&T is a "true blue" company is up for debate, but at least you can support union jobs with Cingular.
by YucatanMan on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 08:05:29 AM PDT
wide narrow
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