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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 [...] [..] |
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| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 15.47 |
Verizon Close To $27 Billion Deal For Alltel  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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| Nerdblog.Net | Relevance: 14.83 |
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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 [...] [..] |
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| Nerdblog.Net | Relevance: 12.63 |
| Boy Genius Report | Relevance: 11.83 |
Verizon Wireless is tops in Customer Service Satisfaction, but are they the best?  J.D. Power and Associates recently released their latest Wireless Customer Care Performance Study and Verizon Wireless beats out Alltel, T-Mobile, and AT&T to claim top honors in customer service. It seems that Verizon?s ability to solve a problem in one call is the deciding factor in making its customers happy. Even if hold times are [...]
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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 [...] [..] |
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| The Boy Genius Report | Relevance: 10.66 |
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 [...] [..] |
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| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 8.541 |
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LG VX9700 Dare for Verizon Caught in the Wild  Back in March when we first told you about the LG VX9700 that would be making its way to Verizon Wireless, a brief but interesting conversation took place in the comments section. It went something like this:
my brother said there is no VX9700 coming out for verizon, he hasnt even heard of it, and hes [...] [..] |
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| Qwest Dumps Sprint Nextel For Verizon Wireless More bad news for beaten-up Sprint Nextel (S), though we've heard rumors about this for a while: Qwest Communications (Q) is formally ditching long-time partner Sprint as its wireless service partner for larger rival Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon (VZ) and Vodafone (VOD).
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| Boy Genius Report | Relevance: 7.617 |
Verizon dresses down with fauxbates  A less-than-classy move by Verizon Wireless will put them in the AT&T Rebate league … AT&T currently sends “rebates” in the form of those impossible-to-ring horrid orange prepaid debit cards — after about two months. Verizon, which has historically been excellent at processing of rebates in less than a month and as of now issues [...]
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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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After its $28 billion deal to buy Alltel, Verizon (VZ) is done shopping for a while, at least in terms of "horizontal" deals to add more breadth to the company's coverage areas, COO De [..]
Alltel, the fifth-largest U.S. wireless carrier, says it will use LTE technology for its next-generation wireless network, not rival WiMax technology. This leaves Sprint Nextel (S) as the [..]
Verizon (VZ) posted a solid Q2, missing Wall Street's sales prediction by a hair but edging out the Street's profit expectation. Wireless led growth, while Verizon's home phone busines [..]
