Notably, Alltel used to operate in 34 U. Most importantly, the acquisition will help the company to procure the much needed spectrum, demand for which has increased due to higher proliferation of smartphones and tablets. Inflation is at a year high. But these Mad Money megatrends could help you fight back.
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Every stock has a backstory, and the backstories offer hints and clues to what lies ahead. Unsurprisingly, Verizon can always count on help from free market allies and alleged community service groups with whom it has a financial relationship or contributes executive talent to serve on their boards.
Most of these have no involvement in telecommunications matters, except when it interests or impacts Verizon. Suddenly they spring to action, conveniently submitting similar comments supporting whatever Verizon had on the agenda before the FCC. What consumers really got were major headaches, bad service, and much higher bills. Some readers of Stop the Cap! Penny writes:. I first had Midwest Wireless that was bought out by Alltel which was just bought out by Verizon. My phone is not even a year old.
Enough about phones, data charges, rude customer service. You want to talk about dishonesty and unfair practices…just say Verizon. In May I called and asked what I should do about leaving for a trip in which I would go out of my phone zone.
The customer assistant that I talked to informed me that to avoid roaming charges I should temporarily switch to a national plan. I asked several times if I would be able to go back to my previous plan and was promised that I could set the start and end date for the new national plan. Well can you guess what they did? Yep they did the old bait and switch and from what I know about law….
Verizon started the new plan almost after I got back from my trip and plus would not set me back to my old plan. So now I had over 2 times the old bill plus roaming charges and less minutes. All I can say is my last call to Verizon was asking when my contract was up and what the termination fee is. Penny was switched away from her grandfathered Alltel plan to a new Verizon service plan, and potentially also ended up with a brand new two year contract, without new phones to accompany it.
Any Verizon customer on a grandfathered service plan should never consider allowing a customer service representative to make substantial plan changes — you could lose your old plan.
Grandfathered customers can make certain changes from the Verizon website adding text plans, changing calling features on phones, etc. Once you lose an old plan, you may never get it back. I was with Alltel for 15 to 20 years and a very happy customer — never a problem.
Then Verizon took over and it has been a problem ever since. First off let me tell you that we are truck drivers and travel all over the US. We were in Texas when our laptop died so we went and bought a new one.
Our Alltel air card would not work in the new computer. This was at the time when Verizon was taking over, so we had to go to Verizon and get a new air card. By the way we had unlimited with Alltel. The sales person in Verizon sold us a new card and got us on the road again.
From that day forward we have had to visit a Verizon store about our bill every month. Last month was the final straw. We did not like the 5 gig limit to begin with and did not trust it so we were watching it closely so we thought.
Well when the bill came in it said we used over 8 gig and instead of our bill being Since this has happened we have already dropped their phone service and may have to drop the Internet and pay the penalties.
Steve ran into the problem former Alltel customers frequently encounter when traveling or moving outside of their old Alltel service area. Many Verizon representatives are not well trained about their new Alltel customers. If not correctly provisioned, equipment may not work properly outside of areas where Alltel had service. Verizon customers should have the ability to opt-out from overlimit penalties. When their 5GB is used up, they should be presented with a screen that requires them to acknowledge they wish to continue using the service and face the consequences on their bill.
Wilton R. He hired Wilbourn and Miller to maintain the system in exchange for keeping the earnings. Tiring of the constant complaints from their customers and the meager earnings, Wilbourn and Miller visited Stephens to tell him they wanted to end the arrangement.
As they were leaving, Wilbourn asked Stephens if he would sell the company. Stephens took them back to his office and wrote the contract. Louis, Missouri, to repay the balance. The telephone company had supplied old hand-cranked magneto telephones, and the lines were often attached to fenceposts and tree trunks, so any storm was likely to disrupt service. Over the next two years, they rebuilt the lines, installed modern switching equipment, and replaced the magneto phones with a common battery.
During the next two decades, their work with most of the independent telephone companies paid off in the same way. Customers in the tiny exchanges were perpetually unhappy because they knew their service was two decades or more behind that of their relatives in the larger cities around the state who had enjoyed dial service in some instances since the s.
During World War II and for a few years afterward, the requisition of resources for the war made wire and other materials so scarce that the companies could not improve their systems. After the war, Wilbourn and Miller saw an advertisement in the Arkansas Gazette inviting bids on surplus military communications equipment—many miles of copper cable and other supplies—at the Arkansas Ordnance Plant in Jacksonville Pulaski County.
They got the contract and the only ready stockpile of cable and communications equipment in the state for years. Independent companies also found it difficult to get loans to upgrade their equipment.
Wilbourn and Miller complained to their congressman, Representative Wilbur D. Mills , that the high interest on bank loans made it hard for independents to get affordable financing to expand and improve their systems.
One by one, as they found themselves without successors or unable to get loans to finance or manage the sweeping technological changes in the industry, the owners of small phone companies sold out to Wilbourn and Miller, who bought all the exchanges of the Southwest Arkansas Telephone Co.
They had acquired so many exchanges by that they formed Allied Telephone Co. They bought their first sizable market in , the Home Telephone Co. They were not reluctant to borrow money. Between and , Allied added at least one new company a year.
According to the AP , that Alltel network actually covers around 4. Want more consumer news? Visit our parent organization, Consumer Reports , for the latest on scams, recalls, and other consumer issues.
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