Verizon Wireless to buy Alltel (Everett Herald)

http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=verizon

06/08/2008: Pending approval, the $5.9 billion deal would make Verizon Wireless the No. 1 U.S. carrier.

admin@ng2000.com wrote in news:927181436948712.Post@ithinknot.net:

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> 06/08/2008: Pending approval, the $5.9 billion deal would make Verizon
> Wireless the No. 1 U.S. carrier.
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......assuming, of course, Verizon can find some way to prevent the
massive churning of previously-happy Alltel customers, most of whom FLED
Verizon...or GTE Wireless....or, in our case, Sellular One in the first
place, having been lied to, deceived and cheated by the most dispicable
sellphone carrier on the planet....a category Verizon is #1 in by a huge
margin.

I've been polling Alltel-equipped sellphone users in the Charleston, SC,
area and most had no idea of recent developments....but expressed DISMAY,
vowing they will NOT be another Verizon customer, ever again.

Verizon needs to know that the phone features, phone plans, unlimited
data and things we've grown to EXPECT from Alltel may not be turned off
and Verizon's terrible nationwide plans shoved down our throats for twice
as much money or half as many minutes.....without serious churning as the
results. Someone tell the Verizon bean counters before they screw it up.

Luckily, in Charleston, we have several possible
alternatives.....including Cricket which is a CDMA carrier I think in
Verizon's system we can use our Alltel equipment on....making them the
favorite at the moment. I'll learn to live without rural phone service,
rather than put up with Verizon's shitty attitude again.

http://www.mycricket.com/
The local coverage map reeks of Verizon.

On 2008-06-08, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

> Luckily, in Charleston, we have several possible
> alternatives.....including Cricket which is a CDMA carrier I think in
> Verizon's system we can use our Alltel equipment on....making them the
> favorite at the moment. I'll learn to live without rural phone service,
> rather than put up with Verizon's shitty attitude again.

Cricket is a flat-rate unlimited carrier, and those carriers y
normally don't do roaming, and have a small coverage area. I don't
know about Cricket, but MetroPCS and Revol have their own networks.

> http://www.mycricket.com/
> The local coverage map reeks of Verizon.

Maybe, but you'd better check before you sign up with them.

--
Steve Sobol, Victorville, CA PGP:0xE3AE35ED www.SteveSobol.com
Geek-for-hire. Details: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevesobol

Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote in
news:slrng4otmd.mcm.sjsobol@amethyst.justthe.net:

> Cricket is a flat-rate unlimited carrier, and those carriers y
> normally don't do roaming, and have a small coverage area. I don't
> know about Cricket, but MetroPCS and Revol have their own networks.
>
>

Yeah, look over the plans. They have deals for nationwide roaming, too.

one has 30 minutes/mo, the other 200 mins/month added to the unlimited plan
in ALL the Cricket operating areas, not just the home area.

A friend with three teenage girls was hit something awful with the damned
texting messages the girls spew out 24/7 to their friends. I showed it to
him and he dragged all 3 Verizon phones down to Cricket and signed each one
of them up on the $35/mo plan, the cheapest plan with unlimited texting.
Cricket shut down roaming on all 3 phones for him so there'll be now
hundred dollar surprises. The girls love it because Dad no longer yells at
them for texting so much. The 3 Verizon Ebay phones are on Cricket,
now...same old CDMA. Cost him $15 activation fee to switch.

Now they can talk and text with those horny boys all they want....until DAD
confiscates the 3 phones at 10AM, or when they walk through the door, which
ever comes first...not a bad plan at all.

In article <slrng4otmd.mcm.sjsobol@amethyst.justthe.net>,
Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:

> I don't
> know about Cricket, but MetroPCS and Revol have their own networks.

Revol doesn't have its own network.

Revol uses Sprint's network.

On 2008-06-09, Elmo P. Shagnasty <elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote:
> In article <slrng4otmd.mcm.sjsobol@amethyst.justthe.net>,
> Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:
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>> I don't
>> know about Cricket, but MetroPCS and Revol have their own networks.
>
> Revol doesn't have its own network.
>
> Revol uses Sprint's network.

Revol had their own towers when I used them. Of course, that was seven years
ago, the year they launched, and they were Northcoast PCS back then and only
served Cleveland.


--
Steve Sobol, Victorville, CA PGP:0xE3AE35ED www.SteveSobol.com
Geek-for-hire. Details: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevesobol

On 2008-06-09, Elmo P. Shagnasty <elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote:
> In article <slrng4otmd.mcm.sjsobol@amethyst.justthe.net>,
> Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:
>
>> I don't
>> know about Cricket, but MetroPCS and Revol have their own networks.
>
> Revol doesn't have its own network.
>
> Revol uses Sprint's network.

I don't think that's right. Revol is the reincarnation of
Northcoast PCS which had a lot of spectrum licenses nationwide
and was famous for not paying the FCC for them. They sold out
most of them to Verizon, but kept the bits where Revol is
operating now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northcoast_PCS

I don't think it is possible for an MVNO to do an unlimited
calling plan using someone else's network. If you find any
Sprint MVNOs offering $40 unlimited plans it would be a good
time to short Sprint stock since, if Sprint is reduced to
doing deals like that, the end is surely near.

Dennis Ferguson