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Alltel Offers Wireless Customers 40+ Channels of Commercial-Free Radio.


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Alltel ALLTEL Corporation (NYSE: AT) is an American telecommunications company with headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas. Alltel provides wireless services to residential and business customers in 35 states.  (NYSE NYSE

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: AT), owner of America's largest wireless network, announced today that more than 40 channels of commercial-free streaming music are now available to users of select Alltel handsets.

"Axcess Radio enables Alltel customers to listen to the music of their choice when and where they want via their wireless phones," said Wade McGill McGill may refer to:
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, senior vice president of wireless product management for Alltel. "We think younger customers in particular will love the freedom and convenience of being able to enjoy their favorite music anywhere on America's largest wireless network."

Axcess Radio organizes music by genre, including pop, country and rock. The service was developed for Alltel by MobiTV MobiTV, Inc. (formerly named Idetic, Inc.) is a global television and digital radio service provider for mobile phone users. The MobiTV service is available in the US through Sprint, AT&T Mobility, Alltel and several regional carriers; in the United Kingdom through 3; and in , which also offers the MobiTV(R) Service, both live and made-for-mobile television programming, available on select Alltel handsets. For more information on MobiTV, please visit www.mobitv.com.

Axcess Radio is available for $6.99 per month on the Motorola RAZR V3c and the Kyocera KX5. Axcess Radio will be available on additional handsets over the next few months. Alltel customers can download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer.  the application from the Axcess Shop on their wireless phones.

Alltel is owner and operator of the nation's largest wireless network and has more than 10 million wireless customers.

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