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Switching To Cingular Is Just a Click Away Consumers Can Rollover to Cingular Service via Internet on Nov. 24 ATLANTA, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Cingular Wireless, as part of its ongoing commitment to making number portability simple for customers, will let consumers establish service while keeping their existing phone number by signing up through http://www.cingular.com/ beginning on Monday, Nov. 24. "There's no need to stand in line to switch to Cingular," said Steve Gray, Vice President of Affiliate and E-Store Sales. "Customers can use the simplicity and speed of the internet to sign up with Cingular and keep their existing number." Signing up via the Cingular Wireless website gets underway on Monday, Nov. 24 as Wireless Local Number Portability (WLNP) officially launches in the largest 100 metropolitan areas in the United States. Prospective customers need only enter the necessary information, select a rate plan and wireless phone, and Cingular will then process and verify the information, and ship their new handset with activation instructions. "Cingular is the only U.S. carrier to allow customers to keep their number and their minutes," added Gray. "With Rollover(TM), Cingular customers can keep their unused minutes from one month to the next." Cingular is offering customers 500 bonus Rollover(TM) minutes when they sign a two-year contract. Cingular is also offering a wealth of information on the portability process at http://www.cingular.com/, including the A-Z of WLNP - a consumer "tip sheet" on Wireless Local Number Portability. Cingular is the only domestic wireless carrier to offer Rollover(TM), which allows you to keep your unused anytime minutes from month to month; and FastForward(TM), a device that lets you forward your wireless incoming calls to your home or office phone. Cingular also offers a variety of local, regional and national rate plans, as well as Family Talk(R). ABOUT CINGULAR WIRELESS Cingular Wireless, a joint venture between SBC Communications (NYSE:SBC) and BellSouth (NYSE:BLS), serves more than 23 million voice and data customers across the United States. A leader in mobile voice and data communications, Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover, the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Cingular has launched the world's first commercial deployment of wireless services using Enhanced Data for Global Evolution (EDGE) technology. Cingular provides cellular/PCS service in 43 of the top 50 markets nationwide, and provides corporate e-mail and other advanced data services through its GPRS, EDGE and Mobitex packet data networks. Details of the company are available at http://www.cingular.com/ . DATASOURCE: Cingular Wireless CONTACT: Clay Owen of Cingular Wireless, +1-404-236-6153, or Web site: http://www.cingular.com/

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