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Cingular To Offer Mobile High-Speed Internet

Posted by timothy on from the a-held-breath-never-boils dept.

ArbiterOne writes "ZDNet has the story: Cingular is moving ahead with its plans to offer wireless high-speed Internet access to consumers. Lucent Technologies has agreed to provide the technology, and Cingular has agreed to buy out AT&T Wireless, and become the number-one cell carrier in the US."

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  1. Re:small by dangerz · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always read the bbc news while I'm on the bus, or driving

    That's safe.

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  2. Re:Don't expect it to work by Rebel_Princess · · Score: 5, Funny
    Being a CSR, you get sent to the store because trying to instruct/walk-through customers on how to do anything on their phones is far too time consuming to bother with - the blunt end being, you're gonna fuck it up anyway and get sent to a store, cut your losses and get to the other people waiting.
    If we had the ability to yank the phone out of your hands after you've unsuccessfully tried turning on your phone for the 19th time, we would sir.
    This doesn't apply to 1% of the calls, sorry if I sound a bit cranky, but after the 40th "What rate plan am I on?" and the answer of "See, at the top of your bill? In giant fucking letters that says Rate Plan and Rate Plan Summary? Well if ignore that, it's a trick! You're real rate plan is unlimited daytime with rollover, unlimited mobile to mobile and unlimited nights and weekends... sorry to mislead you there, but we can't just have everyone know they're on that plan, only the ones clever enough to call in!"

    Thank you for choosing Slashdot and have a nice day.

  3. Re:What will that fix? by mikeophile · · Score: 2, Funny

    If by fix you mean AT&T Wireless will no longer be the worst customer service you have ever had, then yes, Cingular will fix that.

  4. Re:small by Richthofen80 · · Score: 3, Funny

    it doesn't show comments? then what good is it? do you expect me to read the articles? how preposterous!

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  5. Re:Death to telephone numbers by Lumpy · · Score: 2, Funny

    can we please get rid of telephone numbers?

    sure! you can call me at A43b.53ce.002a.0053.00ce.feff cellphone
    A43b.53ce.002a.0053.00ce.ff01 home
    A43b.53ce.004b.0153.d0ce.fecf work

    what? you were expecting ipv4?

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