 (501) 905-8000 Employer Type: Public Company Fax: (501) 905-5444 Stock Symbol: AT www.alltel.com Stock Exchange: NYSE President and CEO Scott T. Ford 2003 Employees: 19,986 LOCATIONS 2003 Revenue: $7,980 Little Rock, AR (HQ) Atlanta, GA KEY COMPETITORS Charlotte, NC Cleveland, OH BellSouth Jacksonville, FL SBC Communications Little Rock, AR Verizon EMPLOYMENT CONTACT DEPARTMENTS Accounting and Finance www.alltel.com/career Administration and Secretarial Advertising and Public Relations Applications Support Banking Business Processes/Analyst College Recruiting Computer Operations Consulting and Professional Services Customer Services Education and Training Engineering Facility Services Human Resources Information Technology New Media/Internet Legal Manufacturing and Production Management Marketing Operations Production Publishing/Printing Quality Control Sales Technical Writing Telecom/Datacom VAULT CAREER LIBRARY 2005 Vault Inc. Vault Guide to the Top Telecom Employers ALLTEL Corporation THE SCOOP An up and coming telco ALLTEL is a communications company with more than 12 million customers across the United States and as of the end of 2003, $8 billion in annual revenue. The company provides wireless, local telephone, long-distance, Internet and high-speed data services to individuals and businesses in a total of 26 states. ALLTEL also owns a series of subsidiaries that provide wireless and wireline local and long-distance and Internet services. But that's not all. One subsidiary of the company publishes telephone directories, while another provides billing, customer service, data processing and outsourcing services to other telecommunications companies. A quick history The company got its start when brothers-in-law Hugh Wilbourn and Charlie Miller of Little Rock, Ark., pooled their resources and bought the Grant County Telephone Company from W.R. "Witt" Stephens in the 1940s. Later in the decade, they would combine the assets of Allied Telephone in Arkansas and Mid-Continent Telephone in Ohio to create a regiona