Alltel wireless

In 1943, Allied Telephone Co., a small business specializing in installing telephone poles and cabling for telephone companies across Arkansas, was founded by Charles Miller and Hugh Willbourn, Jr.
Alltel's modern history begins in 1983 when Allied Telephone and Mid-Continent Telephone, founded by Weldon W. Case and his brother, Nelson H., merged. In 1985, Alltel launched its first wireless system in Charlotte, North Carolina and by 1993 Alltel had opened its first wireless retail store. Alltel was named to the S&P 500 Index in 1994. By 1996 long-distance service was offered and in 1997 the company's wireless and wireline businesses converged into a single organization.
On December 9, 2005, Alltel announced that it would become a wireless-only company, simultaneously merging and building a spin-off company for its wireline services. [1] This company would then be merged with Valor Telecom, which on April 10, 2006 announced it will take the name Windstream Communications. The merger-spinoff process ended July 17, 2006, when Windstream began operations.