{"id":1843,"date":"2004-02-18T08:24:35","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T15:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/02\/cingularat-t-wireless-merger\/"},"modified":"2004-02-18T08:24:35","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T15:24:35","slug":"cingularat-t-wireless-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/18\/cingularat-t-wireless-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Cingular\/AT &#038; T Wireless merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe merger of Cingular with AT &#038; T Wireless is probably going to be less <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificavc.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/12.html#a549\">controversial <\/a>than the Comcast\/Disney dealie, and makes more <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.siliconvalley.com\/column\/dangillmor\/archives\/001814.shtml#001814\">obvious business sense<\/a>. Cingular gets a good GSM network, a ton of subscribers, and a boat load of towers, <a title=\"The Seattle Times: Business &#038; Technology: Biggest Northwest buyout to alter wireless landscape\" href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2001859927_attwireless18.html\">but best of all:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>AT&#038;T Wireless also has a significant amount of spectrum, the licensed airwaves that carry cellphone signals, while Cingular has been hungry for more. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just in time to be aced out by Wi-Fi&#8217;s new channels. Only kidding. They both need more coverage, so the merger makes sense from that perspective. Now if these guys can just figure out what all that GSM stuff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.t-mobile.com\/products\/default.asp?class=pda\">is really good <\/a>for, they&#8217;ll have a chance to survive for a while longer.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The merger of Cingular with AT &#038; T Wireless is probably going to be less controversial than the Comcast\/Disney dealie, and makes more obvious business sense. Cingular gets a good GSM network, a ton of subscribers, and a boat load of towers, but best of all: AT&#038;T Wireless also has a significant amount of spectrum, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/18\/cingularat-t-wireless-merger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cingular\/AT &#038; T Wireless merger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-tJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}