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Alltel subscribers who own a GPS-enabled handset will be able to use location-based services such as TeleNav GPS Navigator, Alltel Navigation, Where, and Axcess Family Finder, in 45 new metro areas across the country for no extra charge.

Thus, using LBS while roaming outside of your home network will cost you nothing, however, standard roaming charges remain in force.

Alltel began offering the LG Scoop, a messaging friendly cell phone available for $59.99 with a 2-year contract after an instant and mail-in rebate.

LG Scoop features:

• Slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a numeric keypad;
• 1.3Mpix still/video camera;
• Built-in music player;
• Bluetooth;
• GPS;
• microSD card slot (up to 4GB);
• Pre-loaded with Yahoo Messenger AOL IM;
• Colors: Citrus, Turquoise and Slate.

Alltel's My Circle calling plans have been modified.

Now subscribers will be able to choose several phone numbers, contacting which will be free of charge. My Circle includes three options: 5, 10, or 20 numbers in the plan for $50, $60 or $100 respectively.

Available immediately.

The HTC Touch has finally been launched on Alltel’s CDMA network.

The device from now on will be known as Alltel Touch, and is already available for purchase through Alltel website for $199 with a 2-year contract.

LG AX565 and LG Vu are two unannounced phone models that were spotted today at CES at the LG booth.

The first one is an Alltel-branded music-centric clamshell that features external touch pad music controls, FM transmitter, stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3Mpix camera and a microSD slot supporting up to 4GB of additional storage.

If you're an Alltel subscriber, you probably have a non-touchscreen device.

But it looks like things are about to change. Apparently, Alltel will start offering the HTC Touch next week.

However, the handset won't be cheap. If you're ready to shell out $200 with 2-year contract or about $500 contract-free than don't doubt your choice.

Alltel came up with a service called Voice2TXT (Voicemail-to-Text Service), which will allow subscribers to have their incoming voice messages transcribed and sent to their phone in a text form.

The prices start at $5 for 20 voicemail messages and go up to $20 for 100.

The service is available to all Alltel customers.

Alltel announced it will soon release the BlackBerry 8130.

The smartphone should be available just in time for the holiday season. Its features include an integrated GPS receiver, a 2Mpix camera, media player, Bluetooth connectivity, a 3.5mm headphone jack, voice recognition, trackball navigation, SureType keyboard and an external SDHC card slot.

Starting February 2008 Alltel will be offering a new free Parental Controls service, which will allow parents to filter unwanted web content on their children's mobile phones, including pornography, gambling, weapons and violence from their accounts on Alltel website.

The service will be run by Bytemobile and will use the content filtering database and the dynamic rating feature to cover both new and unrated sites.

FCC has approved the sale of Alltel to two private investors TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners.

The deal amounted to $24.7 billion with $71.50 per share.

It should be closed by November 22.