Special Report: The Rise and Fall (And Rise Again) of Alltel
Alltel's logo, in use before 2006 Alltel Wireless is back. Two years after Alltel was bought by Verizon Wireless, some 900,000 customers in Georgia, Illinois, North and South Carolina, Ohio and Idaho...
View ArticleRural Alltel Wireless Broadband Customers Told to Log Off Forever
Rural Alltel wireless broadband customers are getting the axe as the company’s new owners have started pulling the plug on customers caught roaming too much with their service. Not all of Alltel...
View ArticleFormer Alltel-Verizon Wireless Customers: AT&T Is Coming By Year’s End – Free...
When Alltel announced the sale of its wireless business to Verizon in 2008, few Alltel customers could have foreseen they’d technically end up changing cell phone providers not once, but twice. That’s...
View ArticleAT&T Takes Over Remaining Alltel Territories: Customers Share Their Phone...
Verizon Communications formally closed its acquisition of Alltel in January 2009, but some former customers are only now feeling the impact as they transition to… AT&T. That’s right, AT&T....
View ArticleSprint Copes With the Growing Reality of a Wireless Duopoly in the United States
While AT&T and Verizon trade customers back and forth and enjoy fighting it out for “number one” in wireless service, smaller providers like Sprint are finding it increasingly difficult to compete...
View ArticleAT&T Drops the Ball in the Dakotas and Montana: Customers Forced Off Alltel...
Alltel Service Areas Sold by Verizon Wireless to AT&T When Verizon Wireless won approval of its takeover deal with formerly-independent wireless carrier Alltel, the federal government required...
View ArticleAT&T Buys Last Remaining Pieces of Alltel That Verizon Wireless Left Behind
AT&T has announced its intention to acquire the last remaining pieces of Alltel that were left behind after Verizon Wireless acquired most of the company in 2008. AT&T will pay $780 million in...
View ArticleAT&T/Verizon Roaming Agreement Ends in Montana; Rural Customers Left Without...
Verizon Wireless customers and public safety personnel are upset that the cell phone company was caught unprepared after a rural roaming agreement with AT&T expired at the end of June, leaving...
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