Alltel Brings Back One-Year Contracts

There is a Farmer's Cellular, but I made a mistake...the company in Southern Minnesota was Hickory Tech. It was a TDMA (IS-96) carrier because I remember traveling through the area back with a Cingular Preferred Nation plan and getting a message with my GAIT phone when it wouldn't allow me to roam for some reason. At the time, Cingular was wonderful and actually called T-Mobile (with me still on as a 3-way call) to have roaming on the T-Mo network in that area forced to work since the roaming with Hickory Tech, their preferred partner for the area, was having issues. Not sure if it was Cingular's network or Hickory Tech's network, but it sure was awesome the way Cingular promptly helped me out (back in 2003 or 2004.)