It’s been three years and two days since Verizon officially closed its acquisition of Alltel , and it looks like Big Red’s finally putting the sledgehammer down on activating legacy devices from the purchased network. We just received official word from a Verizon spokesperson that effective today, the carrier will no longer allow you to bring over an Alltel device to a retail outlet and get it activated on their network. If you’re currently using an Alltel-branded phone on Verizon, don’t panic: this new policy change only applies to handsets that haven’t already been activated
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Verizon to stop allowing legacy Alltel devices to be activated on its network, starting today
