AT&T Alive And Well In South Dakota...Finally

I actually started noticing this back in late February but it seems that AT&T is just about ready to turn off the Alltel switch and start selling plans here in South Dakota. I am sure most have seen the ads here mentioning that the switch to AT&T will be happening soon and during my travels across the state I have noticed that as the weeks have gone by the service on my AT&T work iPhone has gone from non-existent to not so bad.

During that time I have traveled through all major South Dakota cities from Aberdeen to Sioux Falls to Rapid City and have had decent coverage including 3G throughout. That even includes much of the no man's land outside of the few population centers along the I29 and I90 corridors. Maybe some former/current Alltel customers can chime in but from what I can tell AT&T's coverage seems to be almost on par with that of Verizon's.

With that being said I guess I should ask the question. Is anyone planning on making the jump from Verizon to AT&T once the changeover is complete? The few Alltel customers I have talked to haven't been that impressed with how the transition has been going which underscores AT&T's perceived customer service failings plus getting the iPhone is no longer and issue so what is the incentive at this point? Does AT&T have any must have handsets to lure you to them?

Competition is usually a good thing and now that we have some here maybe we can get Sprint to quit complaining about the proposed T-Mobile/AT&T merger long enough to build out their system to include somewhere outside I29 and give us a viable 3rd option.