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Originally Posted by HATMAN
You have to call them on the phone, can't do on line. Also, you have to pick a zip code that is on their towers footprint. I had to pick a town that is 30 miles West of me. I didn't care if I had a local number or not. Mine works on Sprint, Verizon and U S Cellular. The hard part is finding their local footprint. I used zip 53566, Monroe Wisconsin. Check this forum for a lot of Alltel info...
http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/alltel-users/
P.S. This phone seems to work on just about any CDMA carrier in the country. As I mentioned B4, depending where I am at in my town (population @ 50,000) the phone defaults to Sprint. If that signal is absent, it goes next to Verizon, then to U S Cellular. |
Here was what I figured out that I think will work to place an online order. On the online form, they ask for a landline number within the city that you are claiming for your zip code and home coverage area. If you go to grandcentral.com and also to whitepages.com in 2 different tabs, here's how it works. First find a zip code that works for Alltel. Then figure out the area code for that zip, go to grandcentral and look to see if they have numbers in that area code. If they do, look through the cities listed. Double check the offered numbers through whitepages.com on the reverse phone number search. More than a couple of grandcentral's numbers are former "landline" exchanges that still show up as landlines on whitepages.com Pick one of those, sign up for it, and use it as the home telephone number on your Alltel order.
I'm guessing this will work if they don't have any *other* mechanisms in place for verifying your residence other than a landline number in the city you're claiming.
Brings me back to my original question: Can I buy an Alltel phone at Wal-Mart and activate it online? Save myself the 100+ mile each way drive to a B&M Alltel store?