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Friday, January 19, 2007

Steven Colbert shows the confusion surrounding Cingular's name change



Note: This video was changed when the old clip was removed.


Now wasn't that easy and straight forward? Not! I am sure Cingular subscribers are just as confused. We'll see how this pans out for them. The iPhone launch may be the only thing keeping people as a customer here.

*Update* Here is a great post from Valeria Maltoni at Conversation Agent on the topic.

Related: Cingular will become AT&T Monday

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That was greatness. I don't think he actually even covered all the name changes...

I know Paul. It's so confusing. I know that AT&T...sorry...at&t wants to re-assert itself as a communications powerhouse, but Cingular was a well established brand that stood (in my opinion) for the opposite of everything at&t was and is again.

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