I'm a Divested Market
In North Central Ohio, im thinking the main carriers around here are Sprint and ATT (other than Alltel and VZW Obviously) so which do you think would end up being my carrier? God i hope not ATT, i work for them and know how they rape there customers 😢 ill cancel in a heartbeat!
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okay, the dark blue? i thought they said i wasnt going to be verizon? i was to be sold to someone else? maybe im an idiot and didnt mean divested market?
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right know there is no area of ohio to be divested. verizon gets to keep all of alltel assets in ohio. unless something has changed.
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There are a few divested markets in North Central Ohio so you likely will be divested. This is not a bad thing. All divested market customers will continue to be treated as Alltel customers by Alltel employees. So nothing will really change. Verizon has 120 days to sell off the divested markets and then you know how long it takes for a deal to close. It took Verizon 6 months to close the Alltel deal and that was fast by all intents and purposes. It'll be a while yet before you have to deal with a new company. God help us all if AT&T buys us.
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ill have all lines of service out of contract by then and....verizon or even sprint, here i come, but to hell with ATT
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AT&T wont, because AT&T is GSM and Alltel is CDMA.
But, US Cellular would buy maybe, Sprint doesnt have the $$$ to buy it.
But, US Cellular would buy maybe, Sprint doesnt have the $$$ to buy it.
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i agree that us cellular might buy alltel.... they are always really financially sound and have been around longer than pretty much any of the national carriers... sprint has really fallen on hard times... but i wouldn't be too sure that at&t won't buy you because back when verizon bought rural cellular, some customers in the upper new england area (vermont, etc) were divested and sold to at&t... also note that rural cellular (unicel) was gsm and verizon bought them in the first place... any small group of customers can be easily converted to the opposite technology... personally i have nothing against at&t.... i like their phones..... i currently have us cellular but that may change soon
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I had AT&T, hated them.
There service sucks.
I had US Cellular when i lived in St. Louis.
It was good, but if you Roamed, you had no Mobile to mobile or call-me mins.
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I have Verizon now, and I LOVE it.
You might wanna check in to it.
You have 30 days to try it out 100%, and if yo dont like it, you dont have to pay, unlike the others who send you a bill for what you used.
If you do wanna try Verizon, get an LG phone, there the best or get a BlackBerry.
There service sucks.
I had US Cellular when i lived in St. Louis.
It was good, but if you Roamed, you had no Mobile to mobile or call-me mins.
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I have Verizon now, and I LOVE it.
You might wanna check in to it.
You have 30 days to try it out 100%, and if yo dont like it, you dont have to pay, unlike the others who send you a bill for what you used.
If you do wanna try Verizon, get an LG phone, there the best or get a BlackBerry.
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It's likely another private investor will come along and buy all of the divested markets, then continue to run them under the Alltel brand. Business as usual, just with a smaller native calling area.
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There is an idea. Probably get a really sweet roaming agreement with Verizon in place for taking the headache off their hands. Basically, a long term holding company until the environment changes (Republicans come to power again? )
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That's what I'm hoping will happen (the long-term holding company thing, not the Republicans coming to power again 😛). I know if I had a few billion dollars, I'd snap it up. Alltel as a brand is strong and recognizable, and a few shifts in the industry would be all it takes for Alltel to become competitive with the Big Four again.
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