AT&T recently announced at a press release that it has reached an agreement with Verizon Wireless to acquire several former Alltel Wireless assets and 1.5 million subscribers from Verizon for US$2.35 billion in cash. Verizon Wireless was required to divest of most of these particular markets in order to get federal approval for its acquisition of Alltel. The government required Verizon to release these Alltel markets in order to maintain competition.
AT&T are primarily picking up rural markets in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming. AT&T claims that it will take only one year to convert the CDMA network markets it is purchasing over to its own GSM and UMTS based system. The carrier expects the transaction to close before the end of 2009.
Verizon Wireless has said it will purchase $240 million worth of subscribers and assets that AT&T is attempting to purchase as part of a pending acquisition of Centennial Communications. It is expected that selling off these parts of Centennial to Verizon will gain AT&T the regulatory approval it needs to complete the deal. This would result in nearly 120,000 subscribers being added to Verizon Wireless.
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Alltel Wireless has officially announced at a recent press release that the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM) will be available in retail stores and online at alltel.com, starting from May this year. The stylish and compact smartphone puts customers in control of how, when and where they communicate and joins Alltel’s impressive spring line-up of phones. The clamshell BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 smartphone comes with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, the internal LCD displays videos and pictures in crisp detail and contrast.
Featuring a large SureType QWERTY keyboard, an intuitive user interface with trackball navigation, built-in GPS with BlackBerry Maps preloaded and support for locations based applications and services, and a 2 MP camera able to record video, it also features full HTML browsing, a rich media player with the ability to sync music from iTunes or Windows Media Player, microSD card slot for up to 16GB of external memory and stereo Bluetooth support. Customers can activate the smartphone on BlackBerry Internet Service as well as BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
Alltel Wireless is offering the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 smartphone for $79.99, after a $70 mail-in rebate. This discounted price is available to new and existing eligible customers who sign-up for a two-year service agreement on a qualifying Smart Choice Pack. Smart Choice Packs start as low as $69.99 per month and include unlimited data, email and Web access. Alltel has also announced that the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone is now available for $49.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate, and the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 smartphone is free after $100 mail-in rebate.
Alltel Wireless see to it that their customers are always in touch with their near and dear ones. Now, by promoting LG Banter, Alltel is making life even easier for its clients. The LG Banter features a full sliding QWERTY keyboard for easy texting and also a chat-type interface. The LG Banter is also preloaded with Alltel Email, Yahoo! IM and AOL IM. The other features include a 1.3MP camera, MP3 player, Bluetooth Wireless, Alltel Navigation and a MicroSD expandable memory slot.
Alltel Wireless is offering the LG Banter for $19.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate at Alltel retail stores and online at shopalltel.com. This discounted price is now available to new and existing customers who sign-up for a two-year service agreement. Customers may also receive the Alltel Hue II by Samsung or an additional LG Banter for free with activation of a second two-year agreement on a qualifying rate plan, while stocks last. Alltel Wireless also offers Anytime Plan Changes, which enables customers to change their calling plans at any time, without extending their contract.
LG Banter
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Alltel has added new iTunes service, the nuTsie to its offered phones. This service now allows users to listen music from iTunes libraries as well as share favorite music with friends over mobile phones. The nuTsie is supported by phones including: MOTORAZR V3m and V3c, MOTOKRZR K1m, MOTORAZR V9m and MOTOROKR Z6m, LG AX565, LG Wave, LG AX8600, Samsung Muse, Samsung Hue and Samsung Wafer.
Another handsets will be added soon. For those who are interested in this service can get it for $4.99 a month or $19.99 for one year at Alltel Shop located on the handset.
Alltel nuTsie
