AT&T Owns Alltel

Today, Alltel is all split up. Verizon has owned their chunk for over a year now. Atlantic Tele-Network has had their share for a couple months. And yesterday, AT&T announced that they own their chunk of Alltel. This came immediately after FCC approval, showing how anxious AT&T and Verizon were to close it. This is brand new information, and I will post more about the transition plan as it is known, just know that, at the latest, we'll all (Alltel divested to AT&T) be AT&T customers this time next year - that's their deadline to complete conversion that they committed to. For those of us in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, etc who can finally get an iPhone soon (and have 3G and not risk being cut off) this is great news!