Cell phones

[MrBogey]

Originally Posted by phloyd

Cell phones are one example. NA had their own version of TDMA digital - it was a fairly recent thing for AT&T to adopt GSM (the one the whole rest of the world uses) and merge with Cingular.

Minor quibble irrelevant to the point. AT&T had spun off their wireless division years ago and was bought out completely by Cingular. SBC(owning 60% of Cingular) then bought AT&T completely and renamed it's entire company to AT&T. The New AT&T then merged with BellSouth(owner of 40% of Cingular) to bring the entire operation under one umbrella and renamed Cingular to AT&T. Specifically they refer to it as "wireless from AT&T" or AT&T Mobility because AT&T Wireless (the old pre-Cingular buyout division) was known as the worst cell carrier in the US.