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| Alltel announces Wi-Fi partnership with Boingo |  If you’re an Verizon Alltel customer with a longing for free Wi-Fi, your life just got a bit easier. The carrier has announced a partnership with Wireless Internet provider Alltel to bring Boingo Hotspot access to wireless customers. For $69.98/month Alltel customers can experience all-they-can-eat data on their wireless handsets in addition to unlimited Boingo Hotspot [...] [..] Read complete article |  | Published 26-Jun-2008 by Joshua Karp in AlltelVerizonWi-FiboingoEV-DOWiFi
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| Verizon wants to buy Alltel, create incestuous major carrier |  What would you do with $27 billion? If your name is Verizon Wireless, it seems the answer is acquire rival Alltel. According to CNBC Verizon is “deep in talks” to acquire Alltel. The price currently being batted around is $27 billion, which is about equal to the GDP of Latvia. Alltel was recently purchased for [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 04-Jun-2008 by Joshua Karp in AlltelNetworksVerizoncnbcverizon wireless
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| Alltel Adds Messaging to My Circle |  Sure, you probably want to put Chad and his wizard friend through a wall just like us, but it’s hard to deny that Alltel has a pretty solid wireless offering. Its My Circle calling feature in fact is likely one of the most attractive plan enhancements on the market here in the US. Now Alltel [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Jun-2008 by Zach Epstein in AlltelNewsServicescellularMMSMy CircleSMStexttextingWireless
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| Alltel offers up a free month of Navigation and XM Radio Mobile |  Alltel is gearing up for the holidays with yet another special offer that’s definitely worth checking out if you fall within the Alltel coverage area. The US carrier currently in the process of being swallowed by Verizon has just announced a nice little holiday promotion for everyone who purchases a new handset. From now through [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Nov-2008 by Zach Epstein in AlltelServicesSoftwarefreemobileNavigationpromotionsRadioxm
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| Alltel?s HTC Touch Gets Updated; EVDO Rev. A and More |  Congratulations Alltel customers. If you’re lucky enough to spend most of your time within Alltel’s coverage area, you now have access to the first HTC Touch variant to be graced with EVDO Rev. A. A new ROM, 3.04.671.2, has just been issued by HTC that brings with it several fixes and enhancements. Most notable of [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 24-Apr-2008 by Zach Epstein in SoftwareHandsetsEV-DOHTCAlltel
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| Alltel?s Motorola QA30 officially announced as the Moto Hint |  Either the timing was just right or Alltel really knows how to move. Either way, the recently-acquired US carrier just made its latest handset official and it definitely has a good chance of being popular among the younger crowd. Just yesterday we saw the Alltel-branded Motorola QA30 and today it it has been announced as [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Nov-2008 by Zach Epstein in AlltelHandsetsMotorolaHintQA30QWERTYslider
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| March to a different beat with Alltel?s LG Rhythm |  Alltel customers who prefer music phones to smartphones have another phone to drool over starting Thursday as Alltel has officially added the LG Rhythm to its repertoire. The aptly named music phone incorporates Digital Signal Processing as well as a graphic equalizer professionally tweaked by audiophile extraordinaire Mark Levinson. Whether you prefer a public or [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Oct-2008 by Kelly Hodgkins in AlltelCDMAHandsetsLGmusicQVGA
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| FCC approves Verizon-Alltel merger | | In a 5-0 vote, the FCC approved the $28 billion purchase of Alltel by Verizon Wireless. The approval requires Verizon Wireless to end operations in five other small markets neighboring those already required by the Justice Department. It also requires Verizon to honor Alltel’s existing roaming agreements with small wireless carriers for four years. With [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 04-Nov-2008 by Kelly Hodgkins in AlltelNewsVerizonacquisitionapprovalDOJFCCverizon wireless
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By Joshua Karp
Verizon (VZ), the No. 2 U.S. telco, is close to a $27 billion deal for Alltel, CNBC's David Faber reports. If true, this makes plenty of sense:
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As Microsoft announces (through the WSJ) an imminent decision on Yahoo, Yahoo announces (through the WSJ) that it may sign a Google search partnership within the week. (If these two compan [..] 
That was quick: Verizon Wireless' deal for No. 5 wireless carrier Alltel, first reported yesterday, was announced as a done deal this morning:
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