Talk:Alltel

"My Circle"

• On April 21, 2006 Alltel launched a unique program called "My Circle".

I don't think this program is very unique - as it is simply MCI's old "Friends and Family" plan made for wireless networks. Anyone else agree? 70.106.220.156 19:38, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

It is unique, no other plan is currently available that is similar. Strunke 09:23, 28 June 2006 (UTC)strunke

I think it should be struck. Regardless of whether it's unique, Wikipedia should not be used as a platform for promoting companies, selling services or promoting stock. That's what a company Web site is for. There is much more on this site that also should be struck. 19:15, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

The 'My Circle' program and advertising campaign is the only reason I wiki'd this page... because the commercials certainly make it seem as though it's something the other "big 5" are NOT offering... so I thought wiki would be a good place to learn how this company is different than the others (in a neutral POV). So I think it's important to keep this at least until all the other companies make "my faves" like T-mobile did... then it can be a footnote noting that Alltel changed the industry by forcing other companies to adopt the same offers to customers. Robk6364 03:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Subsidiary companies

Is there *really* a need to provide a listing of all those corporate subsidiaries? Most of them are quite obscure and are not recognizable to the average person. Perhaps that list should be moved to a separate article. – Swid ^{(talk | edits)} 18:59, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate these links as if Googling a subsidiary, this is one of the few places to find the connections.

I agree that the list of corporate subsidiaries is way too long. Corporate entries should not be advertisements is indeed an ad, it would seem. I vote to pull the list of subs off.

It may be worth keeping but in a separate article.

Advertising section

I'd like to see a section on their slogans and advertising campaigns. Their latest campaign featuring look-alike spokepeople for Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint is pretty entertaining. (And something they got in legal hot water for, too) --Navstar 03:30, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh yeah! The commercials where the Alltel guy hangs out with the other brands' logos. That should be mentioned. loulou 00:10, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, thats the whole reason I looked this up. im dissapointed it wasnt there :/ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.231.189.189 (talk) 06:14, 4 January 2007 (UTC).

206.82.89.114 - NPOV/Vandal

Would the person from 206.82.89.114 please stop adding NPOV bashing to the opening paragraph. Jonathan Auer 17:35, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Corporate Equality Index

Should the result of 0% ALLTEL reciveed (the lowest in the study) in the 2004 Human rights campagin be added to the page?--Cosmoincarlow 15:58, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Simple Freedom

Simple Freedom is actually owned by Walmart. Alltel simply provides some back-end opertions.

It uses Alltel's network and Walmart really only provides some CS and a place to sell it. Strunke 22:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Shareholder friendly but not customer friendly?

I removed both the statement about Alltel priding itself on producing shareholder value, and the one saying that producing shareholder value is not always in customer's best interests. I think both are vacuous statements that lend nothing to the article.

U Prepaid

Alltel's prepay service is NOT the only prepay service that allows subscribers to roam on other networks. I am a T-Mobile To Go subscriber, and T-Mobile just recently opened up some of their Cingular roaming to their prepaid subscribers.

TimothyOnline 05:16, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Fixing that.... Strunke 22:56, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

18:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC) Tom G.

Commericials

Alltel is the fist cell phone company to make fun of other major companies. It started out when Alltel got look alikes of the cell phone primary advertising characters, after a little bit of trouble, they placed a message right before those commericials saying "THESE ARE LOOK ALIKES". After that Alltel started a series of commercials involving Chad, Alltels spokesman, bragging about Alltel's great service. There are 4 nerdy competitors that they show in the commercial. Verizon, Cingular, T Mobile, and Sprint. It should be noted that the man that plays the Cingular guy plays Eric on Nickelodeon's hit show "Drake and Josh".

Bias

Is it just me, or is there a bias on alot of this article? It reads like company PR.

No it doesn't. The only part that even remotely does is the My Circle program part. The rest is fine and factual. Strunke 22:46, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

California?

I found it odd that this original artical (at least the one I read) included California as one of the states served by Alltel. On the map it shows some small portion of California being served, but that area served is Death Valley and the Imperial Valley. Together they have less that 100,000 people, or 0.3% of the population of California. The amout of customers they have is minimal.

It's not about whether they serve a signifigant amount of people there. It is just a matter of fact. For instance, Verizon only serves a similar percentage of Nebraska, but it would still be included because they are in one city there. The wikipedia article follows the facts of corporation.