said by EPS :

Alltel.com's Merger Information page claims that you can "continue to count on benefits that will provide you with the real choices and flexibility required to meet your calling needs", including MyCircle. Now, I'd hope that means that MyCircle will be extended across Verizon Wireless, but what it more likely means is that current Alltel customers will keep MyCircle as a grandfathered plan as long as they'd like, until they want to change their plan. It's similar in most cellular mergers IIRC- for example, when Cingular bought the old AT&T Wireless, AT&T customers could keep their plans (though I suppose those on TDMA had to switch eventually).