Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Alltel Prepaid Customers

Alltel is implementing an enhancement to its billing platform that will prevent Alltel prepaid customers from being billed for premium SMS services. The tentative implementation date is May 8, 2006. This will lead to increased premium SMS failure rates from that day onwards. Alltel is working on a longer term solution to allow prepaid customers to purchase 3rd party content. It is anticipated that such solution will be released towards the end of this year.

At the same time, Alltel is increasing subscriber spending limits for 3rd party content to $35.00 per short code per user per month. Alltel is managing the enforcement of this spending cap. The previous limit was $25.00.

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