FCC approves Verizon's Alltel buy, deal all but done
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Nov 4th 2008 4:57PM
posted Nov 4th 2008 4:57PM
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so the commercials making fun of verizon by alltel will stop?
My apologies to the Alltel customers.
My apologies for having such cruel parents.
I guess Chad is finally getting knocked off!
or
I guess Chad is going to bed with the Verizon guy.
I guess Chad ended up being the Ding Dong after all.
It's even worse... I think Chad had to eat the dingdong, cream and all, and then smile and say he liked it.
My condolences to Alltel customers and employees. Acutally, to all customers and employees of any cell phone provider. This just means less competition and less choice.
Actually I meant, actually! :(
Welcome to the world, Veritel.
Just one question... does this mean Chad and the Verizon dude need to share adspace?
They are getting married!
is it just me or i never ever seen an alltel commercial?
I think it's just you.
I live in Boise (aka NO Alltel service) and I see them all the friggin time. Even on local stations!
Wow, yes, it is possible it's just you. I live in the SF Bay Area where they never offered service and never would because they don't own any spectrum there, and I saw there ads all the time. It was funny at first, but annoying when they started offering better plans and cheaper prices than what I could get from anyone here lol.
As for Chad's fate, airing a commercial saying that the Verizon dude ate him would be quite fitting.
No, the commercial will just show the verizon guy kicking Chad to the back of the lemming pile that always follows the verizon guy around.
hold on wait...
what does this mean for alltel costumers? (aka me)
Can I get out of my Alltel contract because of this?
I highly doubt it, if it is anything like when Crapular took over AT&T, and I would wager that it will be. Cingular honored AT&T's contracts, which meant the contracts were still valid and to get out, you need to pay the termination fee.
As long as Verizon doesn't manage to degrade the service like Cingular some how did (I went from getting perfect reception in my apartment to getting none), which I doubt, I would just stick out your Alltel contract and then decided what you want to do from there. Everyone seems to like to hate on Verizon, maybe it is just the cool thing to do now, but I have yet to have a problem with them. They have been by far the best provider in the Twin Cities area from my experience, which I know location and phones can change ones perception. I feel that I am getting what I pay for, good service with great coverage.
Oddly enough, when the 1st AT&T took over US Cellular, they cancelled all our contracts and gave us "special offers" that were $20 more a month than the exact plan at Alltel. Verizon has already told us Alltel customers that they will honor our current contracts, but after that we have to give up myCircle and get a verizon contract.
Soooo does this mean you can pick up a alltell phone like the touch diamond, then it will work on the verizon network after a while? yes?
im going to miss the ding dong commercials
The technology is the same. Verizon has (to my knowledge) always been willing to reprogram an alltel phone for verizon networks. Alltel won't though. Verizon phone hardware >>> alltel phone hardware btw.
Wow! That is just real sad.
I want to thow up... first AT&T is going to put caps on my internet usage, and now I forced to be owned by Verizon. Why are we going backwards?
my bad, thow = throw
WTF is wrong with the FCC? When they are done we'll have a monopoly that needs a government bailout and will become a public monopoly.
Just wait to everybody (except sprint) is on LTE
Then we will see a monopoly
FUCK YOU FCC do your job
Yeah, I must say that I'm pretty pissed about this. First because Verizon is in the business of screwing it's customers by charging more for less (compare plans for Verizon vs Alltel and you'll see what I mean. But then also, we'll be losing MyCircle eventually. Once my contract is up, I'll be switching from Verizon to someone else (most likely Sprint) and I think you'll get a LOT of people doing the same and it'll all be because of Verizon dropping MyCircle.
Now if they keep it... Well, that'll be a whole different story.
im an existing verizon customer so if i went out and bought a glimmer i could use it with zvw
My main question regarding this is EV-DO roaming. Verizon has it where I live, but Alltel did not nor does Sprint ( I am a Sprint customer). Right now Sprint customers can roam on Alltels EV-DO network, but can only data roam on 1x through Verizon, what are the odds that I will be able to roam on the new larger EV-DO network?? Any guesses?
lol wow
just...wow
chad is a big fat epic FAIL ::shakes head::
Does anyone know when this becomes official? I need to add a line for someone whose T-Mobil contract is not quite up.
I might be the only one happy here... There are no Verizon towers here... Alltel however has some... No more "extended network", here i come!
I don't like your picture...