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InternetNews December 21, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Cingular Service Restored in Texas Cingular Wireless customers in parts of eastern Texas experienced a network outage on Monday caused by "hardware and software issues," the company confirmed today.
InternetNews October 25, 2004 Colin C. Haley	DoJ: Cingular Free to Buy AT&T Wireless The Department of Justice today announced that it would approve Cingular's $41 billion dollar acquisition of AT&T Wireless, provided the mobile carrier sells assets, such as spectrum and customer contracts, in 11 states.
InternetNews February 17, 2004 Colin Haley	Cingular Wins Out in AT&T Wireless Bid UPDATE: Outbidding Vodafone, Cingular will pay $41 billion in cash to vastly expand its voice and data subscriber customer base.
InternetNews January 24, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Cingular Surges on Subscriber Rush Cingular reported that it ended 2006 with 61 million subscribers and a net income of $782 million, a 283 percent surge over 2005.
BusinessWeek March 1, 2004 Roger O. Crocket	How The Cingular Deal Helps Verizon By paying a premium, SBC and BellSouth could hobble themselves in a fast race
InternetNews January 14, 2004 Colin Haley	Cingular, AT&T Wireless Talking Merger The carriers are reportedly talking about joining forces, a move that would create a formidable industry player and could spark further consolidation.
InternetNews November 29, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Cingular Divests More Spectrum To clear the way for its merger with AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless has sold spectrum licenses in Dallas and Detroit to MetroPCS for $230 million.
InternetNews December 16, 2004 Jim Wagner	No Static Expected in Sprint-Nextel Deal Industry watchers don't expect any trouble from regulators or competitors when it comes to the proposed Sprint Nextel merger. The two companies announced their "merger of equals" Wednesday after nearly a week of rampant speculation.
InternetNews November 30, 2004 Colin C. Haley	With New Spectrum, Cingular Plots 3G Course Thanks to spectrum gained in the $41 billion AT&T Wireless acquisition, Cingular said it will build a third-generation network in several U.S. markets, starting next year.
InternetNews May 25, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Cingular, T-Mobile to Disband Joint Venture As its takeover of AT&T Wireless works through the approval process, Cingular ends its sharing pact and sells spectrum worth $2.5 billion.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2004 Ben McClure	AT&T Wireless' Bum Q1 With revenues flat and customers fleeing, AT&T Wireless is looking like a raw deal.
InternetNews January 28, 2004 Colin Haley	AT&T Wireless Seeks More Bidders The carrier, already weighing a $30B offer from Cingular, invites minority stakeholder NTT DoCoMo to make a takeover offer before next month's deadline.
Knowledge@Wharton	A Cingular Challenge: Becoming More Than the Sum of its Parts It's time for Cingular's final exam. The nation's second-largest wireless company has spent the 18 months since its creation building a brand, integrating its back offices and figuring out what to do with its two clashing wireless technologies...
InternetNews December 7, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Cingular Activates Wireless Broadband The nation's largest carrier launches BroadbandConnect for laptop users on the go.
InternetNews January 21, 2004 Jim Wagner	Suitors Flock to AT&T Wireless Speculation abounds over an acquisition of the nation's third-largest carrier by another wireless carrier. Some are more likely candidates than others.
InternetNews January 4, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Cingular, Lucent Rev 3G Cingular and Lucent said they achieved successful trials of their third-generation wireless network technology, with data transfer rates hitting "true" 3G speeds.
InternetNews January 2, 2007 Ed Sutherland	AT&T Returns to Wireless Roots Merger makes AT&T the world's largest carrier, but rivals aren't sitting on their hands, analysts say.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2004 Tim Beyers	Disconnecting AT&T Wireless The Cingular deal moves forward, but Verizon benefits from customer defections.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2004 Phil Wohl	Wireless Shakeout Alters Marketplace Even though the telecom services industry has been disappointing over the past few years, there are still many investment opportunities to be found.
InternetNews December 10, 2004 Jim Wagner	Sprint, Nextel Talking Merger? Though neither side has confirmed talks, speculation abounds over the merger of the two wireless carriers.
The Motley Fool August 25, 2004 Tim Beyers	Still AT&T Wireless, for a Spell A tussle over the beleaguered wireless service provider's brand name leaves one investor uninspired.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2004 Tim Beyers	Customers Boot AT&T Wireless The beleaguered telecom leads in consumer complaints.
The Motley Fool May 25, 2004 Dave Mock	Cingular Sells Out The nation's soon-to-be (possibly) No. 1 provider sells some big assets.
InternetNews July 26, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Verizon Eyes Expansion Verizon Wireless uses Motorola network equipment to improve service, grow network in competitive marketplace.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2004 Ben McClure	Any Wireless Bright Spots? Will wireless equipment makers thrive, despite the Cingular-AT&T Wireless deal?
InternetNews February 9, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Can EarthLink Leapfrog 3G Rivals? With a new joint venture with SK Telecom, the ISP will try to beat wireless carriers at their own game.
BusinessWeek November 7, 2005	Getting Cingular Up to Speed Cingular Wireless CEO Stanley Sigman talks about the challenges of the AT&T Wireless merger and how he plans to catch up with Verizon Wireless.
InternetNews November 10, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Paging Enterprise Customers . . . With the launch of its Enterprise Paging gateway, Cingular integrates wireless paging service into its handsets.
InternetNews August 30, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Verizon Wireless Expands to Circuit City The mobile carrier plans retail expansion inside 570 Circuit City stores.
The Motley Fool February 17, 2004 Dave Mock	Cingular Snags AT&T Wireless Cingular Wireless nabs its rival for a cool $41 billion in cash.
BusinessWeek February 14, 2005 Brian Grow	SBC Is Edging Onto BellSouth's Turf The SBC-AT&T deal means SBC will be competing far more aggressively for business accounts deep in BellSouth's territory.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2008 Dave Mock	AT&T Calms and Soothes Telecom giant AT&T breaks new records in its wireless business and cites improved growth in broadband and enterprise services.
InternetNews November 8, 2004 Colin C. Haley	SBC Sells South African Telecom Stake Proceeds from SBC Communications' sale of South African telecom provider Telkom SA Limited are earmarked for the Cingular's AT&T Wireless purchase. Meanwhile, SBC may cut 10,000 jobs by 2006.
InternetNews November 1, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Cingular Could be Next in Music Sweepstakes Cingular subscribers may soon be able to transfer digital music they consume from services such as Yahoo Music, and Napster, to their devices.
The Motley Fool December 13, 2004 Dave Mock	Sprint and Nextel: A Done Deal? Rumors are swirling that the next massive wireless merger is in the works. Current speculation is that Sprint will consume Nextel shares in exchange for 1.3 shares of its own plus some cash.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2010 Anders Bylund	Who Controls Verizon Wireless? Verizon can go simple or big with its wireless operations. So what will it be?
InternetNews July 18, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Handheld Crime Fighting Cingular and BIO-Key launched a service to let police officers access criminal databases from anywhere.
InternetNews November 4, 2004 Colin C. Haley	BellSouth, SBC Buy YellowPages.com SBC and BellSouth are teaming to provide national online yellow pages and local Internet search to beat back a challenge from Google, Yahoo and others.
InternetNews November 29, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Cingular, Orange Pact 'Eases Pain' With an eye toward keeping corporate customers with international operations happy, Cingular Wireless today announced that Orange SA has joined its WorldView partner program.
InternetNews January 27, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Reports: SBC Maneuvers For AT&T Buy The regional carrier is looking to raise its profile by buying Ma Bell.
InternetNews February 18, 2004 Colin Haley	Clock Ticks on AT&T Wireless 3G Obligations The carrier, which is being acquired by Cingular, must offer new wireless services in four cities by year's end to avoid a $6 billion contractual penalty.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2004 Dave Mock	Few Defectors in Wireless War How has wireless number portability changed the competitive landscape over the last year?
The Motley Fool August 23, 2004 Rich Smith	Can 2 Wrongs Make Cingular Right? The acquisition of AT&T Wireless by SBC Communications and BellSouth daughter Cingular Wireless may be little more than the joining of two bad cell phone companies to make one very bad cell phone company.
InternetNews September 26, 2005	Midwest Wireless Expects Suitors Verizon Wireless and Alltel are among those expected to bid for the customers and spectrum of Midwest Wireless, according to a published report.
InternetNews March 6, 2006 Ed Sutherland	AT&T, BellSouth Merger Denounced The proposed merger of AT&T and BellSouth means the death of the Internet and the unmasking of fictional competition between telecom companies, charged two Washington, DC-based consumer groups.
InternetNews January 12, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Learning From Sprint's Stumble Sprint Nextel's recent troubles could serve as a lesson - both good and bad - for other wireless carriers, including newly-combined AT&T and Cingular wireless.
InternetNews July 25, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Verizon Makes Picture Pact With Sprint The carriers' 70 million subscribers can now swap picture and video messages.
InternetNews August 29, 2005 Colin C. Haley	VZ Wireless Slashes Broadband Price Hoping to entice voice customers to add data service, Verizon Wireless has cut the price of its broadband service by 25 percent.
InternetNews February 2, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Job Cuts to Provide Bulk of SBC-AT&T Synergies SBC plans to cut nearly 13,000 positions from its payroll after its $16 billion acquisition of AT&T closes in early 2006, the company told analysts Tuesday.
InternetNews September 27, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Cingular Sells Off Biz Messaging Unit Cingular divests its messaging technology unit. AT&T Wireless, which is being acquired by Cingular, has launched a messaging-only handheld for teens.