> Att was destroyed as soon as they sold to cingular. The story of AT&T and Cingular is much weirder, see [0]. Once there was AT&T Wireless that became Cingul

> Att was destroyed as soon as they sold to cingular. The story of AT&T and Cingular is much weirder, see [0]. Once there was AT&T Wireless that became Cingular (with the help of SBC). Then SBC bought AT&T (landline) then the combined AT&T bought Cingular that became AT&T Wireless again. [0] https://www.att.com/Common/merger/files/pdf/Cingular_timeline7.pdf https://www.att.com/Common/merger/files/pdf/Cingular_timelin... EDIT: typos