Anyone have more info about the Cingular bid for ATT?

[Guest equis]

I read 2-3 days ago on the Yahoo news thread (which I can't find now) that Cingular has put up some serious bids to acquire ATT wireless.

The merger would make them the number one wireless carrier in the US.

I want to find out more details because I loathe Cingular they have poor reception atrocious customer service. I left Sprint just based on the sophomoric customer service I received time and time again through the past 4 years of my subscription. Sprint had the best reception I have seen in my area where ATT, Cingular, and even Nextel would lose their signal.

All I can find are old articles when Cingular was playing around with the idea, I want to find out how serious they are at this point in time.

[Guest rh0926]

Here's the latest I found.

New York Times

[Guest nickcornaglia]

I read somewhere that Vodaphone is the frontrunner to "expand their Empire into the US"

[Guest rh0926]

Just heard on the news this morning about AT&T being the WORST as far as complaints (anyhting from reception issues, to bad customer service, to number portability).

I just hope somebody buys them.....and FAST!

(still waiting for a better data plan)