It probably has to do with gaining coverage. I don't know about else where, but around the Twin Cities in Minneapolis. Alltel is primarily in rural areas just outside of the cities, like my wives home town just a hour and 30 minutes away from the cities. Everyone out there has Alltel and those are the towers we use when we are out there.
I know there were rumors that Verizon was shopping around to pick up Alltel for this very reason, to get even more coverage.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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It probably has to do with gaining coverage. I don't know about else where, but around the Twin Cities in Minneapolis. Alltel is primarily in rural areas just outside of the cities, like my wives home town just a hour and 30 minutes away from the cities. Everyone out there has Alltel and those are the towers we use when we are out there.
I know there were rumors that Verizon was shopping around to pick up Alltel for this very reason, to get even more coverage.