Comments on: Alltel drops 2-year contracts, keeps 2-year contract prices

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:39:18 +0000

Hey we have 1 year contracts in Canada. You save $50 on the full price. Of course you still have to pay the $35 activation fee.

By: brum

brum — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:58:48 +0000

Like it.

By: Alltel Guy

Alltel Guy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:42:58 +0000

If you have bought the phone in the last 15 days and go back to the store, they will change the contract to a one year. If it’s over 15 days since you bought it, you are in it for 2 years.

By: e boogie

e boogie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:33:03 +0000

Alltelkid, wait until june 12th….

Everyone else…. Getting rid of inventory? They have 8 new phones mapped threw the end of the year. Actually 1 is launching next week. And even when someone does decide to buy the rest of alltel, its still gonna take a year for FCC to approve everything

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:11:19 +0000

This is strictly for the divested markets…keep that in mind. Why would the other carriers compete with the remains of company with a very temporary lifespan?

By: LB

LB — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:53:09 +0000

Is it wrong for me to want to strangle my Canadian carrier? And then display his wretched corpse on some well traveled public square for others to defile.

By: alltelkidd

alltelkidd — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:19:48 +0000

Anyone know if there are any deals for existing alltel customers? I just bought a new phone on a 2 yr contract

By: StinkyOne

StinkyOne — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:00:57 +0000

How did you write ‘(ou ‘ɯɯn :ɹǝʍsuɐ)’upside down!?

By: Don Louie Cantone

Don Louie Cantone — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:20:37 +0000

Those that do get this will still have a contract that has to be honored by whoever absorbs them

By: PARC

PARC — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:02:12 +0000

The reason for this: Get rid of the Alltel inventory….

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:57:05 +0000

This won’t be a trend. The only reason Alltel’s doing it is because they aren’t going to exist in a few months.

By: 1adonis1

1adonis1 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:45:43 +0000

Well as often as most phone makers are upgrading their models, this would be a great idea for the major carriers.

By: JoeTour

JoeTour — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:40:35 +0000

(ou ‘ɯɯn :ɹǝʍsuɐ)
kinda clever.

but we all see it in the long run coming. new phones which are being released at the current pace, you will see all the carrier’s doing their best to clear the inventory as well as they do their best to stock ‘em.
the more handsets they are, the cheaper they going to get.

By: Queen4111

Queen4111 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:29:32 +0000

TMO USA has 1 year contracts, but you have to request it!

By: VZW

VZW — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:08:41 +0000

Verizon has 1 year contracts, but the phone price goes up.

By: matthias

matthias — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:59:28 +0000

no way they’ll follow. i wish smaller carriers would though. i’d switch.

By: boogereater

boogereater — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:57:39 +0000

@don
I have a feeling the others are going to go the other way… Like 3 year contracts. Or maybe no contracts but you pay full retail.

By: ~Phel

~Phel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:56:02 +0000

hell at&t took away the one year contract option all together…atleast in my market

By: Don Louie Cantone

Don Louie Cantone — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:51:31 +0000

I wouldn’t mind the other carriers addopting this practice

By: boogereater

boogereater — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:45:15 +0000

Wow