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Company Profile - ALLTEL Corporation

1 Allied Dr.
Little Rock, AR 72202

Phone: 501-905-8000
Fax: 501-905-5444
Website: www.alltel.com
Ticker Symbol: AT

Key Facts

Launched new national pay-as-you-go wireless service in 2003, available at 1,500 Wal-Mart locations.
Selling the Financial Services division of its ALLTEL Information Services subsidiary to Fidelity National Financial, in a deal worth $1.05 billion.
Key Financial Facts
2002 revenue: $7,983 million
1-yr. growth rate: 5 percent

Personnel Highlights
Number of employees: 23,955
1-yr. growth rate: -12 percent

Company Overview
Alltel was created in 1983 with the merger of Allied Telephone and Mid Continent Telephone companies. The company has been involved in the wireless industry for 15 years, and at the start of 2001 provided wireless service to 6.7 million customers in 21 states, including PCS and paging services.

The company also offers long-distance service, local phone service, product distribution, directory publishing, information processing services (Alltel staffs, equips, and operates information processing centers for companies in the financial services and telecom industries), and business software for telecom and financial services clients.

Major Line of Business : Telecommunications

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