4 Sep
2004
4 Sep
'04
2:22 a.m.
AT&T spun off AT&T Wireless a couple of years ago, and the spinoff is renting the brand name and the Death Star logo, and probably buys a bunch of network and telco service from AT&T but is otherwise unconnected. As a stockholder of the spinoff company, I'm disappointed though not surprised that they annoyed you (they've been annoying lots of their customers recently), but my stock isn't much affected because Cingular has offered to buy them for $15/share, so the stock price has stabilized in the mid-$14 range until that happens or dies. Meanwhile, AT&T has started to resell Sprint Wireless to their business customers.