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RCR Wireless News, August, 2006
Byline: Dan Meyer As is often the case, confidence comes with success. Enter Cingular Wireless L.L.C. After a couple of quarters of robust customer growth befitting the nation's largest wireless operator, Cingular has decided to start charging its legacy TDMA and analog customers a $5 per month service charge to maintain their antiquated service.
The charge will impact nearly 5 million presumably loyal Cingular customers who apparently did not get the memo that the carrier's GSM network was the cat's meow. Now, if you do the math, this little surcharge will generate around $25 million per month for Cingular, or $300 million per year, depending on the stubbornness of those customers. (If Cingular was really interested in getting these...
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