Verizon Wireless Buys Alltel for $28.1 Billion

In lots of areas such as mine after alltel is gone there is really only once circle to be a part of which offers free verizon to verizon calls. Sprint is here too but they lose more customers than they gain.

Mobile to mobile or in Calling as verizon calls it is very different then MY Circle



In Calling = you can only call Verizon cust.



My Circle = you can call any network cellular , home or business number ...


BIG DIFFERENCE

Forgive me while i take offense...

In lots of areas such as mine after alltel is gone there is really only once circle to be a part of which offers free verizon to verizon calls. Sprint is here too but they lose more customers than they gain.

What the hell is that supposed to mean??? Because Sprint doesnt have the customer base it did just last year its no longer an option for cellular service, despite the fact that they came out with the best unlimited plan, theres been no reduction in services offered, and they continually release more phones than the other carriers (this year for sure)??? Honestly, some of you guys need to get a life and stop beating a dead dog ablut this OLD bad press. They took a HUGE loss for Nextel, and mov...
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I like the new CEO of Sprint but they are the Gateway of the cell phone world people love to root for them but it isn't going to happen they are bleeding chips and I don't think no matter how much the whore themselves out on their plans their customer service and other such things kill them.

I'd have to agree. I would be willing to bet that at least 75% of my port-ins each month are from Sprint, and of those, I'd say half say they're leaving because of customer service issues, and the other half leave due to horrible coverage.

Unlimited plan customers are a minority, and the ones who want unlimited EVERYTHING are an extremely small minority, so who really cares if Sprint has the best one? I'll take being able to use my phone wherever I go over being able to talk and text as much as I want inside the city limits any day thanks.

Lets ignore the fact that Alltel had a larger geographical coverage map than anyone. Let's also play stupid to the fact that Alltel pioneered anytime plan changes. No, let's just be little boys and make non sensical jokes 🙄
Verizon bought Alltel for a reason and it wasn't be cause they had nothing going for them. Think before ya post, dude 😉

From my understanding Alltel's larger geographical coverage map was largely due to roaming agreements they had with other carriers. They are currently only in about 34 states. Anytime plan changes was not pioneered by Alltel, all the big boys did it too, and wasn't anytime plan changes with no contract extension started by US Cellular?

I have always thought Alltel to be a good company and I think this is a good move for both parties. It would be nice if VZW would keep My Circle but I doubt it, if they wanted to do that they would have by now. The big one would be if they moved to 7pm nights, again I doubt that will happen. All of this is just speculation though, we are not the decision makers and only time will tell what will really happ...
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Alltel made the right friends to be able to make such a claim. It didn't hurt that they bought out Western Wireless either.
If Verizon doesn't get happy with the post-merge knife, I also think it's beneficial for both companies. We'll see who and how many get cut.

AlltelHub said:
Lets ignore the fact that Alltel had a larger geographical coverage map than anyone. Let's also play stupid to the fact that Alltel pioneered anytime plan changes. No, let's just be little boys and make non sensical jokes 🙄
Verizon bought Alltel for a reason and it wasn't be cause they had nothing going for them. Think before ya post, dude 😉

"nonsensical" is one word. 😁

Alltel didn't pioneer anytime rate plan changes. I've been with US Cellular since 1991 and they have NEVER requireed a new contract JUST for swapping plans.

Read the last paragraph here:
http://www.prlog.org/10062498-messaging-internationa ... »

The second to last paragraph here:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_ ... »

Yeah you had a lot going for you sophomoric commercials poking fun at competitors 3-7 times your size and your 22 billion in debt. Yeah you had a lot going for you. Verizon stole Alltel because it wasn't worth much to begin with they really only paid a little over 5 billion so they could say they were bigger than at&t that's what this came down to because you really aren't improving Verizon's coverage area you are just giving them pr and decreasing roaming agreements by 1.

Lets face it, Alltel had to do those sort of promotions to keep up with carriers much larger customer bases and much better customer service the same way sprint is being squeezed right now was well.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Thankfully I just signed up with Alltel so I should have 2 years of my circle regardless of Verizon's decisions.
Verizon really needs to keep this feature going though. Right now they are the only company that does not give one single minute-saving feature to its customers. AT&T has rollover and evenings starting at 7, T-Mobile has My Faves and very cheap calling plans with lots of minutes, and Sprint/Nextel has evenings starting at 6 or 7 and free incoming call plans. Verizon has nothing.
Hopefully they will make a wise decision here. It doesn't affect me much because most people i know have Verizon so once the transition is complete, i will have the free mobile to mobile feature to take advantage ...
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they must think "if everyone is on vzw then..." which is pretty funny... but with all things considered, and all the other networks offering those things and vzw not, they still seem to be doing pretty well

yeah, even though they are the most expensive company, you can't deny that they have great coverage throughout the country and a pretty good selection of phones. I will just keep my fingers crossed about the my circle issue. It would be very beneficial for the Alltel cusotmers they are acquiring as well as bring in many future customers to Verizon.

i think if verizon let you talk to any 5 people for free, nevermind 10 or 20, it would make other carriers obsolete

Yeah pretty much. Then once the other carriers die, they can drop it and nobody would care because everybody had Verizon. They'd be stupid NOT to do it.

Yeah, I was being a bit sarcastic. In all fairness, I work for a Verizon indirect agent, so I've got loyalties. But it would be nice if Verizon offered some sort of minute-saving feature beyond the standard fare stuff.