AT&T intro'd GSM service a long time before the Cingular merger, and that had nothing to do with it.
If a company has to go to the expense of maintaining two different kinds of networks, then the people using the old network that should have by all rights been phased out by now then they deserve to pay more. My brother in law works for the local cable company, and he was telling me the other day how much money and bandwidth they waste on people who still have analog boxes and refuse to trade them in for digital ones for god knows why. They have offered 3 months free service, a courier to bring the new box over and install it, 3000 free air miles etc and people still refuse to switch to digital. I'm not into companies telling me how to use my equipment and all, but still using TDMA when GSM or CDMA phones are cheaper and more reliable is just dumb.
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AT&T intro'd GSM service a long time before the Cingular merger, and that had nothing to do with it.
If a company has to go to the expense of maintaining two different kinds of networks, then the people using the old network that should have by all rights been phased out by now then they deserve to pay more. My brother in law works for the local cable company, and he was telling me the other day how much money and bandwidth they waste on people who still have analog boxes and refuse to trade them in for digital ones for god knows why. They have offered 3 months free service, a courier to bring the new box over and install it, 3000 free air miles etc and people still refuse to switch to digital. I'm not into companies telling me how to use my equipment and all, but still using TDMA when GSM or CDMA phones are cheaper and more reliable is just dumb.