Cingular Wireless

As of the last year in 2004, Cingular merged with AT&T wireless making it the largest wireless company in the United States with more than 46 million subscribers. With this number of subscribers, it has outranked its closest competition Verizon with 42 million subscribers. From this merge, Cingular predicts cheaper phones, better wireless services, as well as better customer services. Cingular’s campaigns and advertisement is very astonishing in luring new subscribers to its company. Its free mobile-to-mobile calls, rollover minutes, and the distribution of the new Motorola RAZR V3 camera phone have made Cingular a popular choice for most people. Yet, some analysts predicted that this merge could be a mistake. For example, there will be overlaps of position in jobs due to the merge. Many people will lose there job. Also, the prices of phones might increase due to the decrease in competitions, which is bad for the consumers. It is still too early to predict the outcome of this venture, so I guess we just have to wait and see.