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sexyexotiche@aol.comspamfree (John S.) wrote in message news:<20040516122816.10600.00000472@mb-m24.aol.com>...
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I know that, however, I was refering to color and not name brand. Cingular
> + AT&T Wireless (will) = Cingular. And their "School Colors" are ORANGE!
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> But thanks for the "lesson" on Orange as I didn't know that they had split the
> company. I thought that Hutchison was still all inclusive.
Hi John...
Sorry if I came across a bit pedantic. I realized exactly what you
intended regarding Cingular's color scheme. But I was also quite
humorously struck by the pun potential of your statement.
Hutchison exited the UK market in 1999 or 2000 when it sold Orange to
Germany's Mannesmann. W/in a year after that, Vodafone's expansionist
then-CEO Chris Gent successfully waged a hostile takeover for
Mannesmann. As Vodafone UK plus Orange gave Vodafone an unduly
hegemonic share of the UK mobile market, Vodafone was regulatorily
required to divest Orange. And France Telecom was the buyer. FT has
subsequently applied the Orange brand to other GSM properties it
controls in the EU.
Hutchison is now back in the UK market yet again w/ 3 (or Hutchison 3G
UK). Of the five UMTS 2100 licenses auctioned in the UK, four of the
five went to the GSM incumbents (Vodafone, British Telecom's spun-off
mmO2 nee BT Cellnet, Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile nee One-2-One, FT's
Orange). Hutchison Whampoa was the lone new (or returning in this
instance) entrant to garner a W-CDMA license.
http://www.three.co.uk/index.omp
Andrew
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Andrew Shepherd
cinema@ku.edu
cinema@sprintpcs.com
http://www.wirelesswavelength.com/