For adopted Alltel customers who were assimilated into Verizon’s customer base over the last year, news that they would be able to keep their old Alltel plans was awesome news. That nice gesture by Verizon, however, is turning out to be not so nice with the carriers new iPhone 4. Reports are starting to crop up that subscribers who are still on old Alltel plans grandfathered in by Verizon are experiencing FaceTime issues. While voice, text, and other data-releated...
CDMA and GSM are like ying and yang…except they hate each other. Even if you wanted the two technologies to play nice, it’s inherently impossible. So news of AT&T (a GSM carrier) giving recently acquired Alltel customers (CDMA) a deal on GSM phones seems like a slap in the face. That would be true only if AT&T weren’t moving over their newly claimed spectrum and markets to GSM. And seeing as how they are, those discounted/free GSM phones are a...
Today is probably not the best day to find out you owe $2,500 in back taxes, receive a letter notifying you of your late rent payment, or even going out to spend money on a beer if you find yourself a new ex-Alltel/Verizon acquired employee. Though crying in your beer may be the only thing that makes you feel better. I must stress however that crying in good beer is a travesty — meaning a lesser beer is a more desirable tear collector. What constitutes a good beer?...
If Boy Genius’s little birdie is singing a truthful song, March 5th will be the date of release for the Treo Pro on Alltel’s network. The launch of the “all-new” Treo Pro so close to the Pre is sure to mean that many people will be holding out for the Pre launch at which point they will either pick one up or switch to Sprint (that’s a change) in order to get a piece of iconic Palm history in the making. The price for the already outdated...
Whenever a smaller company gets aquired by a larger company, the smaller one always has to worry about their privileges being stripped away. Many Alltel customers thought that once Big Red took over the reigns of the *former* Alltel subscribers cellular goodies such as “My Circle” were going to be taken away. (For those of you who aren’t down with Alltel goodies, My Circle is much like T-Mobiles “MyFaves”. However instead of just...
