After years of paying, waiting, and being lied to by multiple customer service representitves regarding them, our wireless deposits have been returned! Amazing enough, one of the deposits (with interest) fit perfectly into another month of service. Funny how that works, huh? The other deposit was actually returned to us rather quickly once people stopped lying and we have in front of us a fat check from Alltel pre-Verizon takeover.
Needless to say we didn’t put all of this money back into the mobile giant…
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:25 AM
I would’ve gone with Verizon originally, however at the time they wanted a $1,000 deposit *per line* and Alltel wanted a fraction of that. Their phones are lacking since they don’t order enough volume to get the cool phones first (Like Verizon), however I won’t be going on a Verizon plan for another year till my contract is up because it’s going to double the cost of our bill for my Wife and I to have two BlackBerries on one plan — about $300 up from $150 with Alltel for similar features and talk time.
Yikes.
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:03 PM
I bet you gotta be excited about Alltel being taken over by Verizon because of the great coverage and call quality offered by verizon (I sound like the commercial), although Alltel has some good phones…