New AT&T Mobility CEO: De la Vega

Stan Sigman's recognition is well deserved for the integration of first Bell South Mobility, and later AT&T Wireless. Stephen Carter uniquely launched Cingular with a compelling brand. Sigman was able to get the vast and disparate agent channels to perform with sales results. And Sigman had the operations background to integrate networks and operations. Gary Forsee had a similar background, but could not focus on both sales channels and operations like Sigman. However, the final chapter for Stan Sigman with the exclusive contract for iPhone might be different with the the third quarter results. The one million iPhone sales might be significantly lower in the number of customer activations. Because of Internet ordering, the phones might not have been activated on AT&T's network. Fortunately, the iPhone was only offered in the 1,800 company-owned stores and did not detract from the performance of the more than 5,000 exclusive-branded agent stores and the over 10,000 big-box retailer locations.

AT&T/Cingular/Bell South Mobility left a lot of bodies strewn along the way to success. Obviously, the above Anonymous posting was written by one who survived these transitions. I didn't.