**FILE** Scott Ford, Alltel Corp., CEO, speaks about the proposed agreement by two investment firms to buy the nation's fifth-largest wireless company at a Little Rock, Ark., news conference, in this May 21, 2007 file photo. Alltel shareholders were scheduled to vote Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007 on a $24.7 billion buyout offer by a pair of private investment groups that want to take the nation's fifth largest wireless operator private. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, file)