It's easy, but you cannot use your Verizon phone on Alltel.  They will
no longer activate a non-Alltel phone on their system.

Pick the best signal.  If Alltel has more signal in your home, use them,
not Verizon.  It's not about the company....any company.  They're all a
pack of lies and deceit.  It's about the signal and call completion, the
reason you have a PHONE in the first place.

Verizon will no longer roam to Alltel or Sprint in areas where their
signal sucks, which are many.  Those days are over, after all the
companies realized how poor their coverage really is and determined how
much the swapping with their competitors was costing them.  Alltel will
roam but only in certain territories.  The General and I live on opposite
ends of SC.  Here in Charleston, Alltel will not roam to Verizon at all.  
Up near Greenville, where the General lives, Alltel will roam to Verizon
above Clinton, SC, northwest of Columbia.

Ask your local Alltel store if they allow roaming to VZW and Sprint CDMA
systems in areas of poor coverage.  It's another issue in Alltel's favor
if they do allow roaming to improve overall coverage.

Another Alltel issue we're testing here is data coverage, which is slow
on both companies as neither has implemented broadband, yet.  Alltel
promises us broadband in 2007.  Verizon dumps you on "unlimited" service
if you use over 10GB/month....not really unlimited, which is why their
ads say "unlimited access", a vague, obtuse wording to allow them to dump
you if you are a heavy user paying $60/month for internet.  Alltel, here,
promises me they are truly "unlimited" and won't do that.  We've gotten
28GB downloaded, so far, and haven't been dumped, yet.  The downloading
continues...from Usenetserver.com's massive stack of copyright
infringements...(c;  We'll see....It'll be moot when Wimax is
implemented.

I've been on both systems.  I find Alltel a better company with better
coverage in my little square of the planet....the better of evils.

Do you really need "nationwide coverage" all the time, or would a
regional plan Verizon does not offer with lots more minutes/month work
better for you?  $39 buys 700 minutes on Alltel, 400 on Verizon's
nationwide.  The Alltel regional plans cover two states and the border
areas around them.  I get NC/SC for $39/month.  That's something else
Alltel does Verizon doesn't any more.  Works better if you don't travel
much, which I don't.  When you do travel, Alltel will sell you 100
nationwide minutes for only $10, anytime.  So, you only pay for
nationwide service when you need nationwide service, not all the time.

Alltel is better.  Compare the bitching on this newsgroup with the
bitching on Verizon's.