Verizon Wireless, in a joint venture with Verizon Communications and Vodafone, has now officially acquired Alltel Corporation from Atlantis Holdings LLC. This acquisition makes Verizon Wireless the largest wireless carrier in the United States and gives the company an additional customer strength of 12.9 million, making the total number of consumers go up to a whopping 83.7 million.

The company will continue to use the Alltel brand name for some months, till it integrates networks and billing systems and also upgrades its wireless broadband services. Verizon Wireless will also keep in existence Alltel’s existing GSM network so as to service the customers’ roaming needs. Alltel customers will soon have access to the largest national mobile-to-mobile calling community, so that they can talk to Verizon Wireless customers using their mobile-to-mobile minutes, without spending their plan minutes.

Verizon Officially Acquires Alltel, Creating Nation’s Largest Wireless Carrier

America’s largest wireless network has announced the simplification of e-mail with the launching of the convenient Alltel Mobile E-mail service. Alltel Mobile E-mail allows the user to access the Web-based, personal and work e-mail, contacts and calendar events all from their Windows Mobile smartphones. You can happily download the application right onto your device and begin to use it an instance!

You can connect your smartphone to popular e-mail servers such as AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and more with the simplicity of Alltel Mobile E-mail! This service is also compatible with Microsoft Outlook Web Access (QWA), giving customers the facility of being able to sync their work calendars and contacts without IT support.

Alltel Mobile E-mail will automatically be included with Windows Mobile smartphones with the inclusion of the all-new HTC Touch Pro, HTC Touch Diamond, HTC PPC 6800, HTC Touch, Motorola Q, Motorola Q9c and Palm Treo 700wx. You can also download this e-mail application on select handsets like the Samsung Delve, LG Scoop, Samsung Hue, MotoRAZR V3a and MotoK1m.

Alltel seems to be following in the footsteps and trends of Palm, AT&T, and more. These companies are all offering a bit of simplicity to the mobile industry.

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