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Area Alltel customers still in limbo

One group of wireless phone customers in central and eastern Nebraska is finally out of limbo, but another group remains there.

Last week, AT&T finished migrating former Verizon Wireless customers in a 10-county area to its network. Some Alltel customers, including those in Columbus, are still waiting to become Verizon customers.

AT&T spokesman Alex Carey said all consumer customers were switched to AT&T by May 13, and a few remaining business customers switched as of Wednesday.

Last year, AT&T paid $2.35 billion for the assets Verizon was required to divest as part of its 2009 purchase of Alltel.

That included cell phone towers and an undisclosed number of subscribers.

Carey said the transition went smoothly, despite the fact Verizon and AT&T use different technology. The new AT&T customers received new handsets, and Verizon switched its towers to the technology AT&T uses before handing them over.

The area in Nebraska included Boone, Butler, Colfax, Dodge, Merrick, Nance, Platte, Polk, Saunders and Washington counties and was one of a handful of markets in which Verizon chose to divest its existing customers rather than the customers it was acquiring from Alltel.

The federal government required Verizon to divest more that 2 million customers in more than 100 markets nationwide to resolve anti-trust issues.

Most Alltel customers were integrated into Verizon immediately after the $28.1 billion sale closed in 2009, including those in Lincoln, Omaha and many other parts of the state. But the Alltel customers in the 10-county divestiture area still have not been switched to Verizon.

They continue to be Alltel customers, although Alltel has ceased to exist as a company.

That's led to frustration for some customers.

Mike Hybl, executive director of the Nebraska Public Service Commission, said the agency has received quite a few calls from people confused about the process.

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