Alltel Services

Alltel is one of the biggest mobile operators in the world, with a capital of 24,79 billion dollars and almost 13 million customers, which is only one of the reasons to download Alltel Ringtones! In 1943, Allied Telephone Company, which is a small business specializing in installing telephone poles and cabling for telephone companies across Arkansas, was founded by Charles Miller and Hugh Willbourn. Alltel's modern history starts in 1983 when Allied Telephone and Mid-Continent Telephone, founded by Weldon Case and his younger brother, Nelson H, merged. The elder Case became Alltel's first chairman, based in Hudson, Ohio, where the company was first headquartered. In 1985, the company launched its first wireless system in Charlotte, North Carolina, and by 1993 they had opened its first wireless retail store. Alltel was called to the S&P 500 Index in 1994. From 1995 till 2006, the Jacksonville Jaguars played at Alltel Stadium. By 1996, long-distance service was offered, and in 1997 their wireless and wireline businesses converged into a single organization.

On December 9, 2005, they announced that Alltel would become a wireless-only company, simultaneously merging and building a spin-off company for its wireline services. This company would then be merged with Valor Telecom, and on April 10, 2006, took the name Windstream Communications. The merger-spinoff process ended July 17, 2006, when Windstream started operations. Alltel services consist of analog and digital systems operating primarily on the 800 MHz cellular band, much like Verizon Wireless. The company has recently added a few 1900 MHz PCS sites in various places, such as Jacksonville, Florida and Wichita, Kansas for greater system capacity. Native Alltel markets includes analog (AMPS) and digital (CDMA) technologies. Select markets have been outfitted with 3G 1xEV-DO digital technology, which allows longer battery life and faster download times when using Internet or BREW-based applications. AMPS is still in place and in use in most places, however, the company acknowledges that it is aggressively converting analog customers to digital technology. In 2005, an Alltel spokesman announced that only 15% of its customer base still uses analog. Alltel has posted a three phase turn down schedule in response to the FCC decision stating that by March 1, 2008 A and B side carriers aren`t required anymore to support analog.

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