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Alltel was a landline, wireless and general telecommunications services provider, primarily based in the United States. Before its wireless division was acquired by Verizon Wireless and AT&T, Alltel provided cellular service to 34 states and had approximately 13 million subscribers. As a regulatory condition of the acquisition by Verizon, a ...
Allied Wireless Communications Corporation (AWCC), doing business as Alltel Wireless, was a wireless telecommunications provider serving customers in six states. AWCC customers were transferred to AT&T Mobility in 2015 and the Alltel brand was officially retired in 2016
The company was founded in Little Rock in 1968 as Systematics, which was later acquired by ALLTEL Information Services as its Financial Services division. Alltell then sold this division to title insurance giant Fidelity National Financial in 2003, who renamed it Fidelity Information Services (FIS).
From 1997 to 2006, the stadium was named Alltel Stadium after communications company Alltel purchased naming rights. The facility was renamed EverBank Field in 2010, following the approval of a five-year, naming rights deal with the financial services company EverBank. The agreement was extended in 2014 for an additional 10 years. [6]
Windstream Holdings, Inc., also doing business as Windstream Communications or Windstream, is a provider of voice and data network communications (broadband, VoIP, MPLS), and managed services (virtual servers, managed firewall, data storage, cloud-based voice, etc.), to businesses in the United States. [4] The company also offers residential ...
A graduate of the University of Arkansas, Ford worked for Merrill Lynch and Stephens Inc. In 1996 he joined Alltel as executive vice president with responsibility for Alltel's communications businesses and the corporate staff. He was named president in 1997, assumed the additional duties of chief operating officer in 1998, and was named chief ...
On January 22, 2013, AT&T announced [14] that it had signed an agreement with Atlantic Tele-Network to acquire the company's U.S. retail wireless operations, operated under the Alltel brand, for $780 million in cash. Under terms of the agreement, AT&T will acquire wireless properties, including licenses, network assets, retail stores and ...
Joe T. Ford. Joe T. Ford is a former chief executive officer and co-founder of Alltel, a global communications company. Joe T. Ford graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1959 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. While attending Arkansas, he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.