Alltel: Hey, Don’t Forget About Us!
The little engine that could seems to keep popping up and this time Alltel is following the pack in terms of plan offerings, as opposed to leading it. Alltel’s "My Circle" plans popularized the concept of designating a finite number of unlimited destinations here in the US. It has been copied (myFaves) but Alltel still leads the pack in this respect with three unique types of My Circle plans. Now that each of the four big players offers a blanket unlimited plan of some sort, it was only a matter of time before Alltel followed suit. You won’t find it on the Alltel site just yet, but new and existing Alltel customers now have the option of a $100 unlimited plan for heavy talkers who might have been otherwise lured away from Chad’s nonthreatening smile. Alltel’s unlimited option covers only voice for the time being; other services come at additional fees. The plan is competitive with some but still falls well short of Sprint’s offerings which are still the belt-holder as far as big boys are concerned. Even still, if you happen live in an area covered by Alltel and are considering an unlimited plan, this might be an option worth looking into. By the way, is that a Motorola E815 on Chad’s belt? Do they really still make those?
“My Circle” plans popularized the concept of designating a finite number of unlimited destinations here in the US. It has been copied (myFaves)
Ahem more like Info got leaked and alltel rushed out My circle before full NW release of MY fav. Test market of my fav was before alltell release my circle.
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Where do you find Alltel, looked online and nothing in my are a for over 500 miles, that is useless. Besides their circle is pooled and not like tmobile as tmobile is 5 per line. only better for single line not families!!
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Alltel is primarily in the South, West, and the Midwest… usually in the rural parts with service in some larger cities (like Tampa, Phoenix, Charlotte). Too bad they only have service in one Metro Atlanta county… I would have a family plan with them if they had a larger service area
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Smartphones arent eligible for this plan. so unlike sprint who had badly trained customer service they actually dont have
blacberry love or love for any smartphone.
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LOL my Grandfather switched from AT&T (which stunk up the place in his house & did NOT work-no signal) to Alltel & he says he’s not looking back. I think by Alltel may be onto something by staying somewhat small. They where my first cellular phone company when I was 17 (I got a waiver from my rents’) & I really liked them but the phones didn’t keep pace so I switched to Nextel.
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I had the moto E815. It was such a crappy phone. Dropped calls,freezing up, blah blah blah.
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Um….excuse me…I still rock my E815…it’s probably the best phone I have had to date.
…Of course this is after I hacked the crap out of it because of Verizon’s “restrictions”.
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Well if its good for Fyrestarters grandpa, we should all look at switching to Alltel! Wooot!
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in the pheonix area aletel sucks we call it alhell droped calles really sticy an they haverion cary the network load for them> an ther stopres i went in ontim to get the number and the drivers for an air card which some employee lost and ther was this long line of people sitting on the furniture i watch one guy dump his service because they would not replace his phone an one guy who was in his 60’s calle me an asshole and wanted to fight me because he was waint ing so long.
ther customer service and tech suport sux too. it only runs 10-4 EST
they ar the next sprint waiting to happen
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I have their prepaid service…. the value is great to me since I was grandfathered in prior to the changes made. I only have to make a 1 min call every 30 days instead of refilling every x days. Its prepaid has some bugs (Sprint roaming not working properly and the subpar CS)… if it werent for the lack of expiration, I would have canned them already. Most folks in my area have Alltel and couldn’t be happier. I am a Verizon user for contract service since they have a site about 1/3 mile away from my place, allowing clear calls… and they have native service for my 2nd line, where Alltel doesnt have service.
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cdma has got to go
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Galvatron, in some places CDMA is the only carrier that works luv, so why does CDMA have to go? Oh & as usual that was the ONLY thing in your entire monologue that we actually understood so congratulations, your record holds!
Oh & notanapplehonk again CDMA seems to be the only one that works where my Grandfather lives (a lake area where the home prices average just over $500K) so what’s your point again?
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