Say goodbye to Alltel and unlimited internet to your phone...

Sad day for Alltel customers basking in the unlimited internet service and
great Alltel services....

Verizon, the shitheads of the SELLphone business are buying them, which
will ruin everything we have now and turn Alltel into the shitty service I
left....

Well, it was fun while it lasted.....

Bye bye, Alltel, you'll be sorely missed across South Carolina....

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...Bnw&refer=home
http://www.smartmoney.com/breaking-n...20080604043105
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ogy/2004457486
_webtelecom04.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24971978/

Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote in
news:r6ednYRfW8OCkdrVnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@posted.visi:

> In Minnesota, everybody I know is saying "good riddance."
>
>

Not all of us have the good fortune to live in the South.....where Alltel
serves us well.

On 2008-06-04, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

> Sad day for Alltel customers basking in the unlimited internet service and
> great Alltel services....

Maybe the service is great were you live, but in Minnesota, it
pretty much sucks.

I got my parents a pre-paid Alltel phone. On a vacation to
Southern California, the phone rarely worked. No matter what
number you dialed, you got a recording that either said "dial 1
before the number and try again" or "can't complete the call".

The phone's service got terminated the first time when Alltel
bought Midwest Wireless. As part of the deal, Alltel claims
they had to terminate the accounts of all their customers in
the region. So we plopped down a bunch more cash (about 8X what
it cost previously), and got it re-activated for a year. That
only took about an hour of waiting around at the local Alltel
store while employees that clearly had no training or knowlege
sat on hold as they made phone calls to various other offices
to ask how to do things.

A month later, they shut it off again. This time they had no
explanation for why it was terminated, and after more hassles,
they re-activated. So the phone is _supposed_ to work, but a
recent trip to Minneapolis, the phone could receive calls, but
couldn't make calls -- all outgoing calls just got a busy
signal. Incoming calls worked fine.

OTOH, my Verizon phone "just works". Everywhere. Always.

> Well, it was fun while it lasted.....

No, it was brutal while it lasted.

> Bye bye, Alltel, you'll be sorely missed across South
> Carolina....

In Minnesota, everybody I know is saying "good riddance."

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at all Osmonds!! Throwing up
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On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:24:14 +0000, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

>Sad day for Alltel customers basking in the unlimited internet service and
>great Alltel services....
>
>Verizon, the shitheads of the SELLphone business are buying them, which
>will ruin everything we have now and turn Alltel into the shitty service I
>left....
>
>Well, it was fun while it lasted.....
>
>Bye bye, Alltel, you'll be sorely missed across South Carolina....
>
>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...Bnw&refer=home
>http://www.smartmoney.com/breaking-n...20080604043105
>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ogy/2004457486
>_webtelecom04.html
>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24971978/
This is all just speculation at this point. No talks are even rumored
between boards yet, and frankly I doubt the FCC would let it go
throught without TONS of divestitures where they overlap (which is all
over the place).

Once again Larry, you are yelling the sky is falling. How's Chicken
Little?

On 2008-06-05, Gurney <none@nobody.net> wrote:

>>I got my parents a pre-paid Alltel phone. On a vacation to
>>Southern California, the phone rarely worked. No matter what
>>number you dialed, you got a recording that either said "dial 1
>>before the number and try again" or "can't complete the call".
>>
>>The phone's service got terminated the first time when Alltel
>>bought Midwest Wireless. As part of the deal, Alltel claims
>>they had to terminate the accounts of all their customers in
>>the region. So we plopped down a bunch more cash (about 8X what
>>it cost previously), and got it re-activated for a year. That
>>only took about an hour of waiting around at the local Alltel
>>store while employees that clearly had no training or knowlege
>>sat on hold as they made phone calls to various other offices
>>to ask how to do things.
>>
>>A month later, they shut it off again. This time they had no
>>explanation for why it was terminated, and after more hassles,
>>they re-activated. So the phone is _supposed_ to work, but a
>>recent trip to Minneapolis, the phone could receive calls, but
>>couldn't make calls -- all outgoing calls just got a busy
>>signal. Incoming calls worked fine.
>>
>>OTOH, my Verizon phone "just works". Everywhere. Always.
>>
>>> Well, it was fun while it lasted.....
>>
>>No, it was brutal while it lasted.
>>
>>> Bye bye, Alltel, you'll be sorely missed across South
>>> Carolina....
>>
>>In Minnesota, everybody I know is saying "good riddance."
>
> Trust me, Alltel CS reps are unhappy with former MWW
> customers. We weren't happy to take them, and even today they
> are crass and vulgar as Alltel does NOT pander to them the way
> MWW did.

Providing phones that work is "pandering"?

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at failure right now,
visi.com I couldn't be a more
fortunate man!!

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:41:51 -0500, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
wrote:

>On 2008-06-04, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
>
>> Sad day for Alltel customers basking in the unlimited internet service and
>> great Alltel services....
>
>Maybe the service is great were you live, but in Minnesota, it
>pretty much sucks.
>
>I got my parents a pre-paid Alltel phone. On a vacation to
>Southern California, the phone rarely worked. No matter what
>number you dialed, you got a recording that either said "dial 1
>before the number and try again" or "can't complete the call".
>
>The phone's service got terminated the first time when Alltel
>bought Midwest Wireless. As part of the deal, Alltel claims
>they had to terminate the accounts of all their customers in
>the region. So we plopped down a bunch more cash (about 8X what
>it cost previously), and got it re-activated for a year. That
>only took about an hour of waiting around at the local Alltel
>store while employees that clearly had no training or knowlege
>sat on hold as they made phone calls to various other offices
>to ask how to do things.
>
>A month later, they shut it off again. This time they had no
>explanation for why it was terminated, and after more hassles,
>they re-activated. So the phone is _supposed_ to work, but a
>recent trip to Minneapolis, the phone could receive calls, but
>couldn't make calls -- all outgoing calls just got a busy
>signal. Incoming calls worked fine.
>
>OTOH, my Verizon phone "just works". Everywhere. Always.
>
>> Well, it was fun while it lasted.....
>
>No, it was brutal while it lasted.
>
>> Bye bye, Alltel, you'll be sorely missed across South
>> Carolina....
>
>In Minnesota, everybody I know is saying "good riddance."

Trust me, Alltel CS reps are unhappy with former MWW customers. We
weren't happy to take them, and even today they are crass and vulgar
as Alltel does NOT pander to them the way MWW did.

On 2008-06-05, Gurney <none@nobody.net> wrote:

>>I got my parents a pre-paid Alltel phone. [...] the phone
>>rarely worked. [...]
>>
>>The phone's service got terminated [...] an hour of waiting
>>around at the local Alltel store while employees that clearly
>>had no training or knowlege sat on hold as they made phone
>>calls to various other offices to ask how to do things.
>>
>>A month later, they [Alltel] shut it off again. [...
>>reactivated _again_ ...] couldn't make calls -- all outgoing
>>calls just got a busy signal.
>>
>>OTOH, my Verizon phone "just works". Everywhere. Always.
>>
>>> Well, it was fun while it lasted.....
>>
>>No, it was brutal while it lasted.
>>
>>> Bye bye, Alltel, you'll be sorely missed across South
>>> Carolina....
>>
>>In Minnesota, everybody I know is saying "good riddance."
>
> Trust me, Alltel CS reps are unhappy with former MWW customers.

I realize your reading comprehension might not be up to snuff,
so I'll try to simplify it: my parent's were never MWW
customers. They were Alltel customers. They started with
Alltel, and they're still with Alltel -- despite the phone
having been shut off twice and service that doesn't work when
you need it. I doubt they'll continue to be Alltel customers
after the current minutes expire.

--
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at these SNACK CAKES to NEWARK
visi.com by DAWN!!

Gurney <none@nobody.net> wrote in news:s6fe449vu88lokrvaqtn00s0hgpfbciugr@
4ax.com:

> This is all just speculation at this point. No talks are even rumored
> between boards yet, and frankly I doubt the FCC would let it go
> throught without TONS of divestitures where they overlap (which is all
> over the place).
>

You need to search Google and actually READ about it....

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:48:38 +0000, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

>Gurney <none@nobody.net> wrote in news:s6fe449vu88lokrvaqtn00s0hgpfbciugr@
>4ax.com:
>
>> This is all just speculation at this point. No talks are even rumored
>> between boards yet, and frankly I doubt the FCC would let it go
>> throught without TONS of divestitures where they overlap (which is all
>> over the place).
>>
>
>You need to search Google and actually READ about it....

Yes, I've read the speculations, but it was not officially announced
until earlier today. I still will await actual approval from the FCC,
and will wait with baited breath to see if it acutally goes through.

We'll see. It could be shut down by the FCC after all, and there WILL
be tons of divestitures.

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:09:24 -0500, Gurney <none@nobody.net> wrote:

>Trust me, Alltel CS reps are unhappy with former MWW customers. We
>weren't happy to take them, and even today they are crass and vulgar
>as Alltel does NOT pander to them the way MWW did.

Yes, I know the other poster was referring to Alltel.

However, If you are going to provide MWW service, then you need to
provide it. Otherwise, you need to give them to another company.

Yes, some people are rude but it not excuse to provide them with bad
service or disconnect service if that is the case.