December 19, 2014
AT&T absorbed officially one important cell phone operator, Alltel, which they bought more than a year ago, when they paid approximately 800 million dollars in exchange. At that moment, AT&T got more than 585,000 new subscribers, from which nearly 100,000 from Georgia, the state in which AT&T has the headquarters. Most part of former Alltel customers, which became now the clients of AT&T, are located in rural areas from six states of the country fact that represent an advantage for the giant cell phone service provider, as it also can develop more in those regions and not only in the big cities of the country.
13 Alltel locations became AT&T locations
After the purchase, Alltel locations still operated and maintained their customers, but starting with the new year, 2015, a couple of important changes will about to happen. A couple of days ago, 13 former Alltel locations from Georgia were rebranded and reopened under the name of AT&T and, maybe more important, the former Alltel network was swallowed by the giant company which incorporated it in their 4G LTE network.
Customers have to change their devices
The part of this business that is the most important for the customers is that at the beginning of 2015, they’ll have to move to the AT&T network. Former Alltel customers that is. Of course, they won’t be forced to do so, especially because they’ll need new devices for the services offered by AT&T. The company’s representatives will let know the clients, both prepaid and postpaid users, when the change might take place and after they’ll propose them, most likely, equivalent cell phones free of charge to ones that want to stick with AT&T.