Alltel Looking To Sell
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Coup for ATT
Not that I think they have the resources, and integration would be a complete mess, but ATT buying Alltel and converting all those CDMA towers to GSM would cripple Verizon's roaming ability (probably Sprint's as well). It would put them solidly on top by number of subscribera and network size
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Which would still defeat the purpose for all the people who live in South Dakota, because Cingular cannot have any towers up here. So people in SD would still have to chose between Verizon which has very good coverage here, or Sprint that doesn't work in rural areas, so basically anyone who lives in SD are being forced over to Verizon regardless.
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I guess I'm not sure how a wireless company is able to get into a new market but wouldn't Cingular buying out Alltel give them privilages in SD?
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I don't know, take it up with FCC, I would hope so though, bc then it would only have verizon as the main MAIN carrier in SD.
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Is there any reason that Cingular can't have towers in SD? As far as I know there is no history of any company or affiliate, past or present, having direct service in SD. I couldn't imagine there would be a problem with that.
Do you have any reference on this? I think it would be a shame to disallow Cingular in, but if there is good reason...it's not up to me.
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I don't know why, they just aren't allowed to. I know that they aren't allowed to bc I work for them and yes I do live in SD so I have a different carrier, and when I was in training they did give us the reason but I don't quite remember what the story is behind it. I am just one of the representatives you call to complain about how much Cingular sucks, but I also do get just as many calls where customers love Cingular, so it is just pretty much hit and miss where ever you live.
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