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By JDUB
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#137481
does anyone have an old cingular phone that they aren't using? my g/f broke hers and it will cost 200 to get a new one b/c she's in a contract. she is driving home and needs a phone for the ride home, so if anyone has an old phone they don't need here in the burg that would be awesome
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By JDUB
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#137499
nevermind. she talked a salesman into renewing her contract even though she still had 1.5 years left on the old one.
By LUconn
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#137501
she got a new phone for renewing a contract? Alltel hates me. They never give me anything for free.
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By JDUB
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#137540
she got a krazr(sp?) for $50 bucks for renewing, and she was barely even in the contract.
By Rocketfan
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#137572
LUconn wrote:she got a new phone for renewing a contract? Alltel hates me. They never give me anything for free.
same here, they never give current customers any deals....it blows.
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By RagingTireFire
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#137573
They gave here a KRazr. I wouldn't call that a deal.
By LUconn
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#137581
whatever, Alltel threw me a turdball Kyocera for free for signing up and this wasn't like prerazr. In a perfect world, carriers would focus on customer retention and give them the free stuff for loyalty. Now I've got to switch to some inferior carrier to get a decent phone. I blame this on Eve and women in general.
By Hold My Own
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#137607
Alltel hates everyone...sprints the way to go...I'm getting 35% off my bill each month as well as a free phone every year....
By SuperJon
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#137608
I have no problem with Alltel.
By Hold My Own
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#137610
They are just cheap with minutes and phones...
By MacGeek
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#137633
i hate the commercials for the alltel.

i dont know what it is about that guy.. but he makes me wanna punch in the face
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By JDUB
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#137634
i have alltel and am reasonably happy. there coverage is good, and it doesn't matter what else you offer if you don't have good coverage then your no good
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By DeathCab4LU
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#137645
I have T-Mobile and have great coverage and prices are reasonable
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By El Scorcho
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#137649
I have Alltel because I have no choice, but I've been impressed with their coverage in the Southeast US, not to mention they're still the only carrier here that offers high-speed data service. Their phone selection is usually pretty awful, though. They get phones designed for Verizon about a year after Verizon gets them.

I had a second T-Mobile phone at one point. I loved it and I loved their customer service. However, if I left city limits their (slow) data coverage disappeared. That may not be the case now, but that's how it was then. I believe AT&T and T-Mobile share a network in Lynchburg.

My wife had a contract with Sprint for a while. Eh.
By givemethemic
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#137661
El Scorcho wrote:I have Alltel because I have no choice, but I've been impressed with their coverage in the Southeast US, not to mention they're still the only carrier here that offers high-speed data service.
BINGO!!!!!! I love my high-speed:) I have no problems with Alltel at all...I normally have a great signal
By LUconn
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#137663
Oh I think their coverage is 2nd to none in the area. That's why I'm still with them for the time being. I just wish they would throw me a freebie every once in a while.
By SuperJon
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#137682
El Scorcho wrote:Their phone selection is usually pretty awful, though. They get phones designed for Verizon about a year after Verizon gets them.
I actually talked to the manager of the Timberlake store about that one time. I've got the Samsung Wafer. Alltel was the first to release this phone. It was one of the few phones that they had released before anyone else, and there was a lot of problems with it. They said the reason they don't offer phones right off the bat a lot of times is because they like to wait until the 2nd or 3rd generation model comes out and all of the kinks have been worked out. This phone is one of the two phones I've ever had problems with from Alltel, and both were first generation phones (I've had 6 or 7 phones).
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By Sly Fox
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#137699
My Verizon data services and tether both worked in Lynchburg back in October with no extra charges. Does Verizon not market itself in Virginia?
By SuperJon
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#137705
Verizon doesn't even have towers in Lynchburg.
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By El Scorcho
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#137715
Sly Fox wrote:My Verizon data services and tether both worked in Lynchburg back in October with no extra charges. Does Verizon not market itself in Virginia?
Alltel is the CDMA carrier in our area. I think they may have some kind of non-compete clause in their infrastructure sharing contract with Verizon, because they've never been here.
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By RubberMallet
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#137717
JDUB wrote:nevermind. she talked a salesman into renewing her contract even though she still had 1.5 years left on the old one.
boobs tend to work for those purposes...

my wife has gotten us phone upgrades, plan changes w/out renewing and the likes all by just going itnot the store...
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By RagingTireFire
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#137719
RubberMallet wrote:
JDUB wrote:nevermind. she talked a salesman into renewing her contract even though she still had 1.5 years left on the old one.
boobs tend to work for those purposes...

my wife has gotten us phone upgrades, plan changes w/out renewing and the likes all by just going itnot the store...
Topless?
By Rocketfan
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#137761
El Scorcho wrote:
Sly Fox wrote:My Verizon data services and tether both worked in Lynchburg back in October with no extra charges. Does Verizon not market itself in Virginia?
Alltel is the CDMA carrier in our area. I think they may have some kind of non-compete clause in their infrastructure sharing contract with Verizon, because they've never been here.
I asked this question awhile back and i heard the samething scorchy.
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By jcmanson
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#137766
Just come to Richmond, get a Verizon phone, and take it back to Lynchburg to use.
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By El Scorcho
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#137773
jcmanson wrote:Just come to Richmond, get a Verizon phone, and take it back to Lynchburg to use.
My phones are free. No thanks.
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