Haha, I spent 45 minutes arguing with a tech support sup who kept insisting that the issues that a customer was having was because she had a vzw curve on an alltel smartchoice plan. I finally stopped and said 'ok, so, what should I expect to have happen if it's an alltel plan with vzw equipment?' He read off a list of symptoms, and I checklisted every single one of them as happening constantly on my storm on vzw plan but not on the vzcurve with alltel plan.when I pointed it out, he backpedaled pretty quick and started trying to troubleshoot. The generic 'oh it's because of this' is the most annoying thing I've ever gotten from techs.and thankfully not too many of em do it. Alltel phones are the same technology as VZW phones & were often the same devices separated in identification only by an ESN/MEID series. There is zero reason an Alltel phone can't be put on a VZW line, except that VZW wants to be difficult & controlling. Jan 17, 2014. Alltel wireless is a wireless phone provider that is mostly used in rural parts of America. They were recently bought out by Verizon Wireless so they now run off the Verizon network and towers giving you access to the nations largest coverage network. Alltels prepaid phones services offer some of the best. Verizon's been happily activating any legacy Alltel devices on its network ever since Verizon's purchase of the smaller carrier was closed three years ago, but if you. ![]() I can see getting rid of Alltel plans - they would cause market confusion & customer divisions. But different plans represent different billing codes, not different network provisioning. Making provisioning dependent on billing is not good for customer service. There are rumors that VZW may be taking a bit hit on customer satisfaction & churn numbers for the last half of this year. Alltel customers in larger areas aren't as affected, because the coverage area overlap is already good. But those areas where one was roaming on the other - in some cases it seems the roaming agreements were canceled, the service is so bad. VZW has complete complicity in thie - they did it & they could fix it - the reps & the techs can't - it would take a policy change. ![]() ![]()
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