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Originally Posted by Cycler
Here is a question for you since you seem to be in the know on this whole deal, What about those of us AT&T customers who did NOT become part of the merger? How screwed are we? I have been told by Alltell (that is who picked up my area's contracts) that there will be an opt out period to get out of our contracts (I have a year left and I do not want to spend it with some podunk company out of Ark.). Any truth to this? I hope start again brand new with Cingulair but I am worried this will not be possible, so angeltek, gimmie some good news.
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Your in an area that is what Cingular and the FCC call a Divested Market. This means that everyone in that market is going to be transferred to Company X which in your case is alltel. It would be Illegal for Cingular to cell equipment or offer service to you in that market as deemed by the Department of Justice and the FCC. It mainly has to do with the anti Monopoly Laws.
If you manage to get them t odo that for you though, you could report it to the FCC and they would be fined about 5 million dollars per incident. So I don't think you can get Cingular service there.
Sorry I couldn't give you better news.