Alltel update roaming phone

The phone "locks on", but doesen't have enough signal strength to place a call. When, my old USCC would have full bars in the middle of nowhere. They seem to have great coverage, at least from my experiences GoodmanR Silver Senior Member. Stop hovering to collapse Click to collapse Hover to expand Click to expand I think GONZ may be right. The Verizon test man may want it this way.

Alltel has already improved coverage in Cheboygan by adding a new tower, so this may change in the future. BG Junior Member. Joined: Oct 18, Messages: 70 Likes Received: 0. OK, you UP experts. I switched to Verizon's AC plan last December. I just had to have the Kyocera phone. So far it and the AC plan has served me well. Now to my question. Prior to the switch, I had Cingular's no roam - no ld plan. The cingular phones would lock on a SSM, Ont. I would get a huge Canadian roaming bill from Cingular.

After some discussion with the CS people at Cingular they would credit my bill for the amount. Alltel prepaid was a pretty good deal, once you figured out their plans, but then they got bought out by Verizon and slowly seemed to disappear. There is a page that answers your questions about the transition if you were on a contract plan. Presumably all prepaid customers have to switch to GoPhone or another provider. Alltel offered both standard cell phone contracts as well as prepaid wireless service.

They used to call their prepaid service AlltelU to avoid any confusion. Earlier, Alltel bought out Simple Freedom , another prepaid cell phone plan. You used to be able to tell the difference between Tracfone and Alltel by looking at the pictures on their respective websites.

On Tracfone's site, there was a grown-up with a phone to her ear talking. On the prepaid home page, there was a smiling teenager looking at a cell phone in her hand. Later, the AlltelU web site featured a grown man wearing a sweater and collared T-shirt talking on his phone while the Tracfone web site sometimes shows links to video of teenagers walking through their high school.

Alltel was eventually bought out by Verizon. However, you could still use their prepaid phones and add minutes to your account via airtime cards bought from stores or via an online account. If you peruse the old version of the Consumer Reports Guide to Carriers, you could see that Alltel got a good rating even though it used be one of the smaller full-fledged i. The numbers for Verizon have gone up of course, but Alltel was still a good alternative when you couldn't get service from Verizon.

The roaming fee is 59 cents per minute on the pay-by-the-day and pay-by-the-month plans. There is no roaming fee specifically mentioned for the pay-by-the-minute plan, but I assume it's there. Another source for compatible phones is was from Cellular Country. Alltel's rates are clear but hard to figure out whether they will fit in your budget. Calls cost 15 cents per minute. Text messages cost 10 cents and picture messages cost 20 cents.

The cost calculations are based on the previous rates as the expiration dates on the refill cards are not available on their new site.