AT&T announced on Tuesday morning that it has reached an agreement to acquire Atlantic Tele-Network's "Alltel" wireless operations business in the United States. The deal includes 585,000 Alltel customers in South Carolina, Ohio, North Carolina, Illinois, Idaho and Georgia, as well as highly sought after spectrum in the 1900MHz/850MHz/700MHz frequency bands. Stepping back a bit,...
Verizon reportedly plans on shutting down the Alltel data network that came with its acquisition of the regional carrier in 2009. The decommissioning is said to begin around January 2013 according to a purported document obtained by Droid-Life. Once Alltel's data network is retired, remaining customers' service will be limited to phone calls and text messages. In an effort to make this...
Scott T. Ford, the former president and CEO of Alltel Corp., has joined AT&T's board of directors. Ford currently serves as a partner with Westrock Capital Parners, LLC and Westrock Coffee Holdings, LLC. He will join the board as a member of AT&T's corporate development and finance committee and the committee on public policy an corporate reputation. "Scott has extensive...
Alltel and U.S. Cellular announced a new partnership on Monday in which the two carriers will offer a new U Prepaid service directly from Walmart stores. The service will launch in May in 500 Walmart stores across the United States. The carriers said U Prepaid will offer "simplified, easy-to-understand service plan choices," although it's unclear how much those service plans will cost....