Alltel Seeks Additional Time from FCC Related to E-911 Handset Rules
September 30 2005 - 5:25PM
Business Wire
Alltel (NYSE: AT) today filed a limited waiver with the Federal
Communications Commission asking for additional time related to the
E-911 rule requiring that 95 percent of Alltel's customers have
location-based handsets by Dec. 31, 2005. Alltel is seeking to
extend the deadline until June 30, 2007. Alltel has initiated
numerous marketing and communications campaigns encouraging
consumers to upgrade their handsets, including eliminating fees,
reducing prices for handsets, and using promotional campaigns
through bill inserts, retail outlets and the company's Web site to
encourage conversion. However, customers in Alltel's predominantly
rural areas, and many of the company's low-usage customers, have
resisted converting to location-based handsets. At the current
conversion rate, Alltel expects that approximately 85 percent of
its customers will have location-based handsets by Dec. 31, 2005.
The filing outlines Alltel's successful record of working with
public safety agencies to deploy Phase I and Phase II emergency
services and reiterates the company's commitment to supporting
E-911 deployment. Since selecting its handset-based solution in
2000, Alltel has consistently met or exceeded all deadlines the FCC
has set related to E-911 issues. Alltel's filing today complies
with the FCC's request that the company ask for a waiver on handset
rules by Sept. 30. The FCC request was included in its review of
Alltel's merger with Western Wireless Corp. Alltel is a
customer-focused communications company with more than 15 million
customers in 36 states and nearly $10 billion in annual revenues.
Alltel claims the protection of the safe-harbor for forward-looking
statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are subject to
uncertainties that could cause actual future events and results to
differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking
statements. These forward-looking statements are based on
estimates, projections, beliefs, and assumptions and are not
guarantees of future events and results. Actual future events and
results may differ materially from those expressed in these
forward-looking statements as a result of a number of important
factors. Representative examples of these factors include (without
limitation) adverse changes in economic conditions in the markets
served by Alltel; the extent, timing, and overall effects of
competition in the communications business; material changes in the
communications industry generally that could adversely affect
vendor relationships with equipment and network suppliers and
customer relationships with wholesale customers; changes in
communications technology; the risks associated with pending
acquisitions and dispositions, including the pending acquisition of
the Idaho markets and the pending dispositions of Western Wireless'
Kansas and Nebraska markets and international assets; the risks
associated with the integration of acquired businesses, including
the integration of Western Wireless; the uncertainties related to
any discussions or negotiations regarding the sale of any of the
international assets or the wireline repositioning; adverse changes
in the terms and conditions of the wireless roaming agreements of
Alltel; the uncertainties related to Alltel's strategic
investments; the effects of litigation; and the effects of federal
and state legislation, rules, and regulations governing the
communications industry. In addition to these factors, actual
future performance, outcomes, and results may differ materially
because of more general factors including (without limitation)
general industry and market conditions and growth rates, economic
conditions, and governmental and public policy changes. Alltel,
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