Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL
| Re: Alltel is now VZW? said by aSic  :I completely missed the sale. Apparently it took place back in 6/5, and is expected to close late this year. Guess that means the future holds nothing but crippled phones (VZ) crappy handsets (Sprint) and dropped calls (TMo/ATT). So much for the revolution.  Alltel, can you hear me now? You better, cause we own yo ass... *sigh* and the lack of the Chad Commercials | |
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 patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| Re: Alltel is now VZW? No MyCircle and no U Prepaid (which is much better than Verizon Prepaid). And question is what will happen to the roamer only GSM system Alltel operates. When Alltel and Verizon, or Alltel and US Cellular are the 800s, your better hope one of them (Alltel) has GSM service if you have a GSM phone. | |
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mindfrost82
join:2003-04-19
Cortland, IL | Re: Alltel is now VZW? This has been mentioned in all the other LTE vs WiMAX discussions. LTE is going to be used for data-only. While it could lead to a GSM upgrade later on, voice will remain on the respective CDMA and GSM networks and only data will be on LTE. | |
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join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Re: Alltel is now VZW? There'd be no reason to convert from CDMA to GSM- it'd be a downgrade in voice quality anyway. LTE is supposed to have voice over VoIP-based systems, which are much cheaper than current cellular voice technologies. | |
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DaveNJ
No Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
 ·Comcast
·Patriot Media
| Re: Alltel is now VZW? said by EPS :There'd be no reason to convert from CDMA to GSM- it'd be a downgrade in voice quality anyway. LTE is supposed to have voice over VoIP-based systems, which are much cheaper than current cellular voice technologies. Its not like that LTE is the family of GSM. Called 3gpp. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3gpp
Plus both cdma and GSM are old school. What has to happen is Alltel moved to a GSM core first then to LTE.
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| hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | MyCircle will still be around for those customers that have it now and as long as they don't renew their contract after the merger. After that they won't have it of course. uPrepaid will go away almost after everyone in DC signs off on the deal. | |
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ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| Re: Alltel is now VZW? The only thing VZW is required by law to keep is anything where their is a contract in place. Since UPrePaid is a prepaid service and has no actual contract VZW can and most likely get rid of the service.
As far as postpaid customers of Alltel their service will go unchanged until they either renew their contract with VZW under a "new plan" or change providers. | |
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ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | Re: Alltel is now VZW? you can always see about a VZ Reseller. They're are many of them. One actually resells VZ Unlimited its about $78 per month UNLIMITED VOICE day and night; PagePlus Cellular. | |
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Got Nitro
@cox.net | All can say is I hope that they keep my circle or alot of people are doom !!!!!! My circle is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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