ALLTEL CFO Jeff Gardner to Speak At Legg Mason Conference.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2003

ALLTEL (NYSE:AT) Chief Financial Officer Jeff Gardner will speak Feb. 13 at the Fourth Annual Legg Mason Telecom Conference in New York. Gardner will participate in a "Challenges and

Instructions to access Webcasts of Gardner's presentations and materials can be found at www.alltel.com/investors. The public can access the presentations via the Investor Relations portion of the Web site on the day of the conference.

ALLTEL, with more than 12 million communications customers and nearly $8 billion in annual revenues, is a leader in the communications and information services industries. ALLTEL has communications customers in 26 states and provides information services to telecommunications, financial and mortgage clients in more than 50 countries.