Re: any way out of a contract??

Re: any way out of a contract??

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seattlesucks@hotmail.com (Seattle Sucks)	2/16/2004 8:07:02 PM
Perhaps someone could correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe that the upcoming sale of AT&T Wireless should be a way out of the contract. The sale would essentially amount to a delegation of the contract and, IIRC, the law doesn't look favorably on delegations of duties. jdogg1103@aol.com (Jdogg1103) wrote in message news:<20040205210903.19265.00001010@mb-m26.aol.com>... i have 5 months left on my contract with att. switched over to gsm not too long after it came out. the service has not gotten better at all. phone doesnt work in my house, while im on campus or in class, and lots of areas while im on the road. you'd think living just a few mins from our nations capital that cellular service would be of some quality. guess not. while everyones phone is ringing and making phone calls...i sit there with no service. any way to get out of the contract? if not, i had thought of dropping to the lowest possible cell plan and running out the contract but i wanted to carry my number over to verizon. anyone know if its possible to run out the contract on the lowest possible plan and also carry the number over to another carrier? thanks j



"Scott Stephenson"	2/16/2004 10:17:39 PM
"Seattle Sucks" <seattlesucks@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:92e4a5f8.0402162007.6ef3f6a4@posting.google.com... Perhaps someone could correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe that the upcoming sale of AT&T Wireless should be a way out of the contract. The sale would essentially amount to a delegation of the contract and, IIRC, the law doesn't look favorably on delegations of duties. You are correct about the courts and assigned duties, but I think we'll see a couple of things happen here. The biggest of these will probably be a continuation of the ATTW brand for some time, even after the merger (or acquisition). The initial concern of the new entity will be to consolidate as much of the back end as possible, to reduce redundant costs ASAP. In addition, the corporate entity that is currently AT&T Wireless will continue to be referenced by name in any meaningful activity it participates in. Look at VZW- it still uses the corporate names of its acquisitions and merger partners to this day. By the time ATTW is totally folded into the new entity, most (if not all) of its old service agreements will have expired, and anyone signing on to the ATTW network after the merger would be signing a service agreement much different from the one available now. Of course, all of this is based on ATTW being acquired to merge with another carrier. If Vodafone is the winner, all service agreements stay in effect because the domestic corporate structure remains intact. Even a name change to Vodafone would not be enough to invalidate agreements.



"Robert M."	2/17/2004 7:54:50 AM
In article <92e4a5f8.0402162007.6ef3f6a4@posting.google.com>, seattlesucks@hotmail.com (Seattle Sucks) wrote: Perhaps someone could correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe that the upcoming sale of AT&T Wireless should be a way out of the contract. The sale would essentially amount to a delegation of the contract and, IIRC, the law doesn't look favorably on delegations of duties. NOPE. The contract says AT&T Wireless and or its successors.

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