God dammit Snuggles, you are honestly making me angry now which is making me more angry because you are affecting me.

You are the dumbest person I swear to god.


Verizon and Cingular are closest with customers, Cingular has more nationwide with the merger of AT&T.

Verizon has been around a long time, has exclusive contracts with Motorola. Cingular is on a completely different network than Sprint, Cingular, or Alltel, called GSM. Therefore they get GSM phones.

Cingular and Verizon have the best phones because they can pay the companies billions of dollars for contracts and phones.

Sprint has also been around along time and is third, but falling. They have Samsungs, Kyoceras, Sanyos, and a few LG/Motorola.

Alltel doesn't ...
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🙂 i get dropped calls on alltel all the time!!! You know how on the bill every month you get so many free min for dropped calls!?!? Well last month i had 28 so that would be 28 dropped calls! So much for putting all of there money into towers and stuff! Plus i roam in my basement!!!

Alltel Wireless is a distance 5th in the industry (on customer count). If you read the bio on Alltel you will see that Alltel is a large regional carrier that operates primarily in "Tier 2" markets (Small to Medium cities in the US; hence the name Alltel Rural Wireless). Alltel is completely independent with no major backer.
Cingular has SBC and BS which now or will be entirely AT&T. Cingular will be renamed to AT&T.
Verizon Wireless has Verizon and Vodafone.
SprintNextel is now a pure wireless carrier with a strong customer base to drive revenue.
T-Mobile is held by Germany's Deutsche Telekom.

The top 4 have revenues in the billions that dwarf Alltel. Understanding, Alltel does not have the ability to lean on the mobile phone vendor...
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Your statement is mostly right. Alltel has not focused on phones in the past...that's why they didn't get the "cool" phones, in addition to the money issue (carriers have to commit to buy so many phones up front to lock up contracts, hence why there are still so many damn SoHos sitting around today still..nevermind they suck). Well, that and most of those "cool" phones work like ass, and failed the QA that Alltel does.

Alltel has built out the largest wireless network in the United States of America. That's where the money went after the first Sprint merger, and 360 buyout. Alltel is fast moving, and I would expect them to be listed as a national carrier before the end of the year, or late 1st quarter.

Alltel has also done some inn...
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I admire your positivity toward Alltel becoming national, but there's NO WAY Alltel will move into 15+ states before the year's end. Alltel was in 33-35 states last time I checked.

Don't give Snuggles such a hard time. He's dedicated to saving peoples lives everyday..................................... ............................................. ............................................. ................as his JR High hall monitor.

LMAO


I wouldn't be so quick to sell them short...I'm sure that you've heard the rumblings in New York and Florida...I've also heard about a market in Maine, two others in the "North East", and three more in the Western states.

That would open them up to national status. My understanding of national carrier is not all 50 states, but all major markets. The only markets that Alltel is missing are New York, LA, Miami (but, if memory serves, Alltel just moved into Miami...) and somewhere in Texas, I forgot, and I don't feel like looking up my SIDs right now.

If we make the requirement all 50 states, then I give it three years at a maximum. That may seem optimistic, but I think that it's a very real posiblity. Hell, two years ago, e...
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