Alltel owns and operates the largest network in the U.S. (area wise). However it currently doesn't cover areas with large cities. NYC, Chicago, etc. When you are in those cities and a few others you will roam for free on Verizon Wireless. And in other areas you will roam for free on Sprint's towers. Where do you live? We can tell you whether you will have native Alltel service....
Well unfortunately Alltel doesn't have native service in New Jersey right now. So you wouldn't be able to get a local number. Unless you were to get a line out of Virginia and use it there, but I don't know if they would go for that....or if you would want that.
If Alltel doesn't natively provide service in your area, that means that they don't have a license to give you a local phone number. So, for example, if you went to an Alltel store in VA, you would be assigned a VA telephone number and area code. I think he was saying that he didn't know if you would want a long distance phone # from your house. By looking at the Alltel map, you would still get great coverage in NJ. But if Alltel doesn't own any towers in your area, you would free roam off of another carrier. So yes, you will be roaming, but you will not incur roaming charges and you will receive service at alltel's rates and be on their towers whenever you are in their service area. Hope this clears things up a bit. I do think you must provide an address with a zip code in an area that provides service, but if you go into the right store, they will enter an address, make the sell, and immediately change the address to your actual address. This is done in many stores by all carriers from what I understand (no personal experience but I've heard stories). You probably just have to find a sales rep willing to do this. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I'm a fairly new customer as well. edit: I do not know if any sales reps could do this if you called alltel directly at 1-800-alltel1 and explained the situation or if the prepaid is even sold over the phone.
No companies can port prepaid numbers into another prepaid system. Not sure why exactly. You can however port out of prepaid. They do sell it over the phone, but like what was said, you may have to actually visit a store, then they give you a psuedo address, then change it back. You would have a new number, but it would be a number from where the store is located. This really shouldn't be a problem if most people that call you have cell phones or unlimited long distance included in their home phone plan. Because those two ways it won't cost them any extra, but if they don't then it will cost them however much it cost to call the store where you bought it at because it is in a different area code, even if you and your cell phone are not in that area code.
It is worth giving Customer Service a call to see if they will do it. If not then Tracfone (which owns Net10 also) will be the other choice. You will likely roam on Cingular or T-mobile. Net10 is all GSM. Tracfone carries some CDMA ones but the rate is higher.
you can free roam in NJ and get a CT number. but with pre-pay you would be free roaming on verizon and for some reason there are issues with pre-pay roam on them. the 2 stage dialing does not always tell you that you need to 2-stage and n confuses people.
Just a note, if it dosen't tell you to double dial, you can still double dial again anyway and it will still work.
