ALLTEL President and CEO Scott Ford and Western Wireless Chairman and

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
    Smith Barney Citigroup Entertainment Media & Telecommunications
    Conference

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2005--Scott Ford, president and CEO of ALLTEL (NYSE:AT), will speak at 3:30 p.m. CST on Jan. 11 at the 15th Annual Smith Barney Citigroup Entertainment Media & Telecommunications Conference in Phoenix. He will be joined by John Stanton, Chairman and CEO of Western Wireless.
    Instructions to access the Webcast of the presentation can be found at www.alltel.com/investors. The public can access the presentation via the Investor Relations portion of the Web site on the day of the conference. It also will be archived on the Web site for one month.
    ALLTEL is a customer-focused communications company with more than 13 million customers and $8 billion in annual revenues. ALLTEL provides wireless, local telephone, long-distance, Internet and high-speed data services to residential and business customers in 26 states.

    ALLTEL, NYSE: AT
    www.alltel.com

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CONTACT: ALLTEL, Little Rock Rob Clancy, 501-905-8991 rob.clancy@alltel.com

KEYWORD: ARKANSAS ARIZONA TRACK INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRADESHOW CONFERENCE CALLS SOURCE: ALLTEL

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