Cingular and AT&T announced that Little Rock based Alltel has bought the Oklahoma assets of the former AT&T, and will start service in Oklahoma City next year.

The current subscribers will convert to Alltel with no noticable changes except the name of their provider. Alltel will rename the AT&T stores Alltel later in the year, and will have to "earn" the subscirbers business when the contracts expire.

Alltel said they have been wanting to enter the Oklahoma City market for several years, but were outbid by US Cellular when they entered in July.

This is good news for AT&T people since Cingular has numerous complaints for bad service. The more the merrier.