ALLTEL Wireless User Reviews
Pros: 2 local stores in my area Cons: The local service people are not very nice to you when you go into the store. Summary: I wanted to upgrade to a better phone for my hearing impairment. I can't do this unless I pay full retail price for the phone & If I do this I have to pay $200.00 to end our contract. Right now I am using a microphone attached to the phone & I can't get a new one of these because I gone through 3 of these since we have been with them. 20 out of 28 people found this review helpful Pros: Local Alltel Store very helpful & concluded many billing errors that customer service number refused to handle. Cons: poor customer service at the toll free service center number. Inflexible and do not stand behind what they promise. Summary: Been customer since 2001. Moved in 2006 & quality of service poor in new area. Constantly charged roaming charges every month & when contract was completed was charged additional 3 weeks, since billing date didn't coincide with end of contract.Alltel refused to pro-rate charges even when I was told prior to end of contract they would. Changed to Verizon-very happy. 18 out of 36 people found this review helpful Pros: Coverage Cons: Nothing yet Summary: We have had alltel for 8 years now. They have given us an additional 100 free minutes per month when we hit 5 years. Love the service. Had a nextel and hated it. PS. dial *228 to upgrade phones roaming service 19 out of 36 people found this review helpful Pros: Axcess TV, XM Radio Mobile Cons: Rude customer service, high bills, drooped calls, have a hard time calling outside of my home network that either includes a busy signal for no apperant reason or a message that states, please reenter your 10 digit number, followed by the number sign, as if I have to reenter it twice, which is annoying. Summary: Enough said! Just switched to Verizon. I did like the XM Radio though. 23 out of 34 people found this review helpful Pros: Great coverage in my area (few dropped calls). Pretty good selection of phones. Good customer service most of the time. Cons: Only regional, although they are expanding quickly. Summary: I think Alltel offers very good services for being a regional company. They provide great customer service and will usually bend rules to help out clients. Plus they use EV-DO for mobile broadband which is blazing fast compared to GSM (AT&T/Cingular). Also, MyCircle is great. 22 out of 37 people found this review helpful Pros: Good signals...thats about it!!! Cons: Bad customer service!! Summary: I have been a alltel customer for over 6 years. I decided to upgrade my phone and chose the motorola wafer, well the phone had a bad echoing issue in which i took the phone back up to the alltel store and told them. They said there is nothing they could do because they could only give me another phone just like the one I had bought and it to would have a echo problem. So since I had originally bought the phone on line I called the so called customer service people and they told me if they sent me new phone I would pay the $300.00 and when I sent my broken phone back they would refund me the $300.00.....NOT its been 7 months and all they can tell me is there is nothing they can do it got lost!!! They told me to send the phone back regular mail and thats what I did and then they proceeded to tell me they did not tell me that....so there is no tracking number so theres is nothing they can do!! 19 out of 37 people found this review helpful Pros: their are no good things to say Cons: my contract is up in july and i cant wait to walk in their and tell them to kiss it Summary: I started sevice with alltel in mobile al. moved to columbus ms and transferd my account to have a local number huh what a mistake my sevice sucks the customer sevice sucks too. Also use caution when you pay online they or some one took money out of an old account i had stored online and caused 300.00 in fees they said its was not their fault if was not there fault why did put money on my alltel account and not send it back to the back? 13 out of 28 people found this review helpful Pros: Few dropped calls, excellent reception even in rural areas, my circle Cons: no customer loyalty, poor customer service Summary: It has become apparent to me that once you sign the dotted line with Alltel, they no longer care whether you stay or go after your contract expires. I have been an Alltel customer since they merged with 360. I have had the same phone number for 15+ years. Until two years ago, I had up to 4 lines with them. I switched 3 of those lines because Alltel would not give me the same specials they were offering "new" customers.Even though I was willing to sign new 2 year contracts, the only way I could qualify for the specials was to get all new phone numbers. Instead of rewarding me for being a loyal cumtomer, they simple turned their back on me so they lost those 3 lines. Fastforward 2 years and nothing has changed. The company I switched to did not have nearly the coverage that Alltel has where I am. Those contracts expired and my intentions were to switch them back to Alltel. I found a deal on free phones at the motorola web site. My plan was to switch 2 lines back to Alltel and sign a new contract with the 1 exsiting line I still had with them. Even though I was willing to sign a new contract, they refused to accept the motorola offer because I was not a "new" customer. I would have to get a new number. So, instead of getting 2 new lines of service and keeping an existing customer, I will be moving all 3 lines to another carrier who is offering similar specials through the motorola site. I hope someone from Alltel reads these reviews and brings this to corporate's attention. Maybe they should look at Time Warner Cable. Even as an existing customer, if they have a special going on for new customers, they will give it to you if you ask. Do the math Alltel......3 lines of service gone for the price of 1. 14 out of 26 people found this review helpful Pros: I've been with Alltel since '95. Great reception. Great plan... with circle of friends. All phones have drop-outs... but with Alltel, they'll at least credit you a minute. Cons: Phones are HO-HUM! Reminds me of discount "wearhouse" marketing of limited selections of merchandise. Alltel needs to learn that THE PHONE IS AN ATTRACTION to the company as well as the plan! Summary: Overall, I wouldn't have any other carrier... 9 out of 24 people found this review helpful Pros: Alltel owns the East Coast as far as coverage goes and is slowly heading west Cons: Customer Service reps outsourced to overseas often Summary: Quite frankly,alot of you complain because you have had one bad experience with Alltel.This could of just as easily happened with any carrier.If you want coverage to be in specific locations like big cities,tell Verizon,ATT,Sprint and T-Mobile to stop being little whiny asses and give cell tower rights to alltel like alltel does for them.Main reason for this is because these companies dont want Alltel invading the big city market.They want to keep them out in the country to keep them from growing too much faster than the rest.Might be much cooler phones on other networks than alltel,but phone service is what matters.And when you travel like I do,your not always in a New York city or Philly. 14 out of 31 people found this review helpful
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