899:, launched on April 20, 2006, was a feature offered by Alltel Wireless that enabled customers to make and receive unlimited free calls to and from different phone numbers, including landlines. Initially, "My Circle" gave customers 10 different numbers per account. Customers were later given a choice of how many circle numbers they get (1, 5, 10, 15 or 20) based on the cost of their rate plan. On April 22, 2008, Alltel announced that all customers celebrating their second anniversary with "My Circle" would automatically receive one free "bonus" number added to their "My Circle" plan. In addition, on every second subsequent anniversary on an eligible "My Circle" plan, another bonus number would be added at no additional cost. Verizon Wireless adopted a My Circle-like feature called Friends & Family in February 2009. As Alltel customers are integrated and converted to Verizon Wireless' billing system, My Circle is being converted to Friends & Family.
204:, Alltel provided cellular service to 34 states and had approximately 13 million subscribers. As a regulatory condition of the acquisition by Verizon, a small portion of Alltel was spun off and continued to operate under the same name in six states, mostly in rural areas. Following the merger, Alltel remained the ninth largest wireless telecommunications company in the United States, with approximately 800,000 customers. On January 22, 2013, AT&T announced they were acquiring what remained of Alltel from
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Verizon Wireless's "Family Locator" service, Alltel offered a service dubbed Alltel Family Finder where users on family plans could download software to their children's phones and use GPS technology to acquire real-time location information either directly on their
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hotspots in North and South
America. Alltel Wi-Fi was available for purchase by anyone regardless of whether they reside in a traditional Alltel territory. Alltel also had bundled pricing of their 'Wireless Internet' service and 'Wi-Fi', allowing users to roam from one network to another on their
1007:), who was later replaced by Adam Herschman. Each representative wears a shirt with the color of the company they represent, as well as name tags to represent their company. Most ads in 2007 had the Cingular/AT&T guy wearing two name tags—one each for Cingular & AT&T—while that brand
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would be their primary advertising agency, Alltel used lookalikes of rival cell phone companies' primary advertising characters along with Alltel's spokesman, played by comedian Chad Brokaw. After competing networks complained, the promotional campaign featured this notice on television and the
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website: "Our lawyers would like to inform you some of the characters you see here are not associated with Alltel. They are look-alikes. The characters, not our lawyers." In the first commercial, at an Alltel store, Alltel representative Chad spoke to representatives of five competitors to his
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decision stating that by March 1, 2008 A and B side carriers are no longer required to support analog. The analog systems were retired by the end of 2008. While Alltel had not outlined its future path, merger partner
Verizon Wireless had already announced plans to switch to GSM-based
256:, was founded by Charles Miller and Hugh Willbourn, Jr. In 1945, they opened a storefront in the Hillcrest district of Little Rock. The business sold electrical appliances in the front of the building, and the company enabled Wilbourn and Miller to buy telephone equipment wholesale.
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Alltel's modern history begins in 1983 when Allied
Telephone and Mid-Continent Telephone merged. Mid-Continent Telephone was originally a theatre company and started in 1931 by Eddie Ruben and Joe L. Floyd in Minnesota. In 1985, Alltel launched its first wireless system in
987:". The parodied competitors, called "Sales Guys" are perpetually frustrated by their failures and less popularity, even going so far as to harass and threaten him, albeit with less than effective results. The Sales Guys are played by professional actors Matthew Brent (
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Verizon divest 105 Alltel markets. On May 8, 2009, AT&T announced it would acquire 79 of the divested wireless properties, including licenses, network assets, and 1.5 million current subscribers, primarily in rural areas across 18 states.
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Partners. Under the deal, the two firms paid $ 71.50 a share in cash, or $ 27.5 billion, a 10% premium over Alltel's May 18, 2007 closing price.
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phone or on the computer. Users could also set up scheduled, automatic notifications of their child's location at set times, or use on-demand location checks to display the child's location on an interactive map.
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Internet or BREW-based applications. Alltel posted a three phase turn down schedule in response to the
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as the real "Verizon Guy". Alltel and Chad produced a
Christmas edition commercial later that year for remaining Alltel markets, featured at Longbranch Coffee House located in Carbondale, Illinois.
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Lavallee, Andrew (August 3, 2006). "Alltel Spoofs Itself in Online Ads, But Not Everyone Gets the Joke".
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Telecommunications companies disestablished in 2016
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963:After Alltel's November 2004 announcement that
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1372:"Goldman Sachs buys Alltel for $ 27.5 billion"
1109:Alltel Pavilion at the Stuart C. Siegel Center
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737:Chief Information Officer, Lewis Langston
731:Chief Administrative Officer, Wade McGill
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2146:Detroit–Columbia Central Office Building
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1683:Archive of Alltel Intercept Messages
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1286:"Alltel lives on in Allied Wireless"
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194:telecommunications services provider
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2202:AT&T Building (Davenport, Iowa)
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543:First Cellular of Southern Illinois
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2596:United States Cellular Corporation
1668:Alltel/AT&T Merger Information
1542:Levere, Jane L. (August 7, 2007).
466:and TDS Telecom – wireless assets
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229:Federal Communications Commission
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2111:AT&T Huron Road Building
641:. Terms were not disclosed.
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2096:AT&T Center (Milwaukee)
2066:AT&T Building (Detroit)
1393:Nystedt, Dan (2007-05-21).
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755:Wireless network technology
208:for $ 780 million in cash.
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2116:AT&T Lenox Park Campus
1974:AT&T Business Internet
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332:) – $ 1.8 billion merger
288:Mergers and acquisitions
250:Allied Telephone Company
2187:AT&T Midtown Center
1979:AT&T Small Business
1959:BellSouth Long Distance
1752:Gardiner Greene Hubbard
1126:Winona State University
1089:Raleigh, North Carolina
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520:) – wireless properties
503:) – wireless properties
460:) – wireless properties
374:) – wireless properties
328:Aliant Communications (
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2249:Barclay–Vesey Building
2217:AT&T at the Movies
1984:AT&T Cybersecurity
1807:Michael B. McCallister
1003:), and Michael Busch (
985:Come and Get Your Love
562:Western North Carolina
321:Standard Group, Inc. (
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2871:Pocket Communications
2424:Predecessor companies
1862:Randall L. Stephenson
1747:Alexander Graham Bell
1080:Jacksonville, Florida
1017:stop-motion animation
672:Atlantic Tele-Network
637:in 2005, was sold to
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132:Little Rock, Arkansas
105:Dissolved by AT&T
70:Little Rock, Arkansas
2436:Bell Atlantic Mobile
2151:Europe India Gateway
2141:Asia-America Gateway
2106:AT&T City Center
1867:Laura D'Andrea Tyson
1023:Christmas specials.
380:Wireless (assets in
351:360 Communications (
2576:Liberty Puerto Rico
1635:Wall Street Journal
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1328:on October 21, 2007
1166:Penske Racing South
1104:Scottsdale, Arizona
857:Lucent Technologies
722:President and CEO,
605:for $ 27.5 billion.
599:GS Capital Partners
303:Jackson T. Stephens
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2697:Visible by Verizon
2407:Corporate officers
2239:550 Madison Avenue
1949:AT&T Southwest
1944:AT&T Southeast
1781:William E. Kennard
1168:#02, 12, and 39, (
1156:Herzog Motorsports
1139:Mankato, Minnesota
1117:Richmond, Virginia
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368:SBC Communications
335:Liberty Cellular (
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1827:Cynthia B. Taylor
1792:Glenn H. Hutchins
1570:The Tampa Tribune
1130:Winona, Minnesota
1037:with its own web
997:Cingular/AT&T
993:Scott Halberstadt
887:Wireless services
708:AT&T Mobility
693:AT&T Mobility
635:AT&T Wireless
485:AT&T Wireless
481:Cingular Wireless
330:Lincoln, Nebraska
323:Cornelia, Georgia
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