content: Only because they absorbed Alltel into the mothership.  I had an Alltel phone back in the day because of the great coverage, buying 60 minutes when I'd run low, then Verizon bought them and I got a text message warning me that my unused minutes had fallen below $3.  It was true because they'd sent that text message!  When that $3 ran out I went out and got a tracfone (although I had to turn the tracfone off most of the day because of all the telemarketers).