With the launch of Apple’s iPhone, a lot of consumers have dropped off their other devices to get the latest in the technology market. A recent study conducted showed that a lot of users from Alltel and T-Mobile are moving on to AT&T and the iPhone. iPhone early adopters were “ten times more likely than other new phone buyers to have previously owned a Treo and three times more likely to have owned a T-Mobile branded phone, such as the popular Sidekick model.”

When it came to carriers, Alltel and T-Mobile were said to have lost the most customers to AT&T, as consumers who “switched carriers to buy an iPhone were three times more likely to switch from Alltel or T-Mobile than from other carriers.”

Notably, the lack of “corporate email support” was pinpointed as the main reason that many BlackBerry users didn’t make the leap, but it did praise the iPhone for helping to “bridge the gap between consumer-focused feature phones and productivity-focused smartphones.”

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Here’s some really cool news coming in from our emails. Alltell Wireless is offering lucky football fans throughout the country to win a chance to live out your dream of passing a winning touchdown for your favorite teams. Alltel Wireless, America’s largest network, offers this through their “My Circle 1st & 10” sweepstakes.

Fans of the 16 sponsored universities and pro football teams can enter to win a chance at football stardom by texting CIRCLE to 52191 or by logging onto www.alltelfootball.com beginning Sept. 12, 2007. One lucky fan from each sponsored team will be selected at random to take the field and attempt to complete a pass for an unprecedented grand prize. If they complete the pass, the winner will earn $100,000 for his or her ‘circle’ of 10 friends to share as well as free Alltel Wireless service on America’s largest network for the first 20,000 fans who redeem vouchers at an Alltel store.

Grand prize winners will take the field with their ‘circle’ of 10 friends at halftime of Alltel’s 16 sponsor game days. The 10 friends will have a chance to complete their own 10-yard passes, with each successful throw driving the grand prize winner down the field and closer to his or her target for the final pass.

If the grand prize winner’s throw spirals through the target, the grand prize winner and his or her ‘circle’ take home $100,000 to share and trigger a reward for those in attendance. The first 20,000 fans to redeem vouchers provided by Alltel will receive their own grand prize – six months of free Alltel Wireless service with “My Circle,” as well as the new Motorola RAZR V3a phone for just 99 cents. The grand prize voucher offers are limited to the first four games with on-field winners.

North Carolina A&T University will host the first “My Circle 1st & 10” challenge at its home football game on Oct. 13, 2007. The program concludes at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C., home of the Carolina Panthers, on Dec. 16, 2007. See detailed schedule below.

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Here’s some really cool news coming in from our emails. Alltell Wireless is offering lucky football fans throughout the country to win a chance to live out your dream of passing a winning touchdown for your favorite teams. Alltel Wireless, America