(noun)
1.
Jeff: "Hey, buddy. What service do you have?"
John: "I have Cingular."
Jeff: "I'm so sorry."
2.
Jeff: "I like to eat babies."
John: "Eww! Cingular!"
(adjective)
Jeff: "I eat babies!"
John: "Eww! That's really Cingular!"
*Bob turns on t.v.* T.V. AD: Did you know that Cingular has over 50 billion customers?
Bob: Really? *yells at tv* THEN HOW COME EVERYONE I KNOW HAS VERIZON?!
1 - A mobile phone operator in the United States of America. Currently for voice operates GSM850 and 1900 service, with a larger 850 footprint. Cingular also offers D-AMPS TDMA and AMPS analogue capability, although thse networks will be turned off in 2008. 3g UMTS, for example is the next evolution of their network - relying on W-CDMA in conjunction with the GSM associations specifications on the UMTS standard.
The company aquired AT&T Wirelss in 2004, thus posessing a substantially larger tower-base than they had previously.
Cingiuar Wireless has roaming aggreements with T-Mobile, but only for T-Mobile customers to access the Cingular network. Currently, Cingular wireless seem to be a "love it or hate it" mobile operator: Many blindly love it, many blindly hate it because they aren't willing to spend more than five minutes to solve a problem, or are in an area with poor coverage to begin with. And wonder why their mobiles do not work well.
Like its competitors, Cingular is consistently slandered by users who expect a mobile phone to be 100% crystal-clear at all times, with no dropped calls, no digital garble, and the realiability of a land line mobile. Yet, with over 50 million subscribers, it seems to maintain the largest footprint in the US.
a - My Cingular mobile seems to allow me to actually use OBEX file transfer. What? What do you mean your Verizon is crippled?
b - I get reception in the basement of my house with Verizon, but not Cingular.
c - Cingular sucks! This seems to be a phrase that is repeated by people who have never even used the service in the North East...
d - Cingular is the best! They rock my socks off! Fanboyism, perhaps?
The first-ever cellular phone provider. Cingular was originally known as Cellular One. Recently purchased AT&T Wireless to be the largest cell phone provider in the country with nearly 50 million subscribers.
Cingular the number one cell provider in the USA in terms of covrage and amount of people. Since they bought out AT&T they are number one with the best phones out there and best quailty service GSM.
Man 1: DAMN THIS!
man 2: WTF is wrong?
Man 1: i need to place a call and i have SPRINT PCS
man 2: use my cell its CINGULAR..it works almost everyware even in most casinos!
A company that claims that a "Leading Independant Research Company" says they have the fewest dropped calls. I wish they could tell me the name of this Research Company so I could tell them that they're full of shit!
A piece of crap provider. I signed with AT&T and they were awsome, as soon as they got bought out, everything went to hell. I can't wait for my contract to be over.