Alltel Looking To Sell
Western Divestitures
Also, Alltel inherited GSM infrastructure and roaming agreements from Western Wireless. Should Verizon purchase Alltel, they would also inherit these (which would probably please Vodafone). I wouldn't think that Verizon would be able to simply shut off this system, as it would look to better themselves by hurting their competitors from predecessor agreements. I guess, perhaps, they could divest that infrastructure? I'm sure AT&T would be up for that, that could reall...
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a... i have an unlimited everything old cell one plan
b i love alltels unlimited texting to everyone
c i like my phone and i dotn like the verizon crap they put on!
In SD, the two major rural carriers are Alltel and Verizon. In NE, they are Alltel and US Cellular. Not sure about ND or MT.
When Alltel bought out Cellular One, Cell One and Alltel were the two major rural carriers in Nebraska. So shortly after the acquisition, Alltel had to sell its Cell One towers located in Nebraska off to US Cellular so they wouldn't have a monopoly. I imagine the same thing would happen to Verizon, where they would have to sell off a majority of the Alltel towers.
jskrenes said:
In SD, the two major rural carriers are Alltel and Verizon. In NE, they are Alltel and US Cellular. Not sure about ND or MT.
Unless a LOT has changed in terms of cellular service in ND and MT, the major carrier, and only statewide carriers, are Verizon and Alltel. I don't imagine Sprint or T-Mobile suddenly blanketing rural states in a year or two.
Also, in the recent past, Extend America, headquartered in Bismarck, ND sold its iDEN network to either Nextel or Sprint (not sure which one it was at the close of the deal). Now that Extend America became Nextel, I would imagine Sprint will start migrations so it can shut down that network. Most of EA's network overlapped Sprint's anywa...
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xyzpdq123456 said:
well you will have service...your just roaming!
And as such, Sprint will not be considered to have a considerable presence in the state.
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