Before Getting Bought By Verizon Wireless, Alltel Tried To Buy Sprint, T-Mobile And AT&T Wireless
from the merger-mania dept
After being rumored for years, Verizon Wireless finally bought Alltel earlier this month. However, Alltel's CEO has now admitted that the company wasn't just looking to be acquired these past few years. It had, itself, aggressively looked into buying Sprint, T-Mobile or even AT&T Wireless at times. In fact, it tried to buy Sprint three separate times. The other two certainly seem like longshots. Deutsche Telekom appears to have no real interest in getting rid of T-Mobile, and depending on which version of AT&T Wireless you're talking about, it would have been difficult to convince the various parent companies involved that a sale to Alltel made sense. And that, of course, ignores the fact that T-Mobile and AT&T Wireless were from the GSM camp, rather than the CDMA camp. Still, it is interesting to see that the smaller Alltel was looking at buying its way up the food chain.
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ah, one step closer to monopolization
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Alltel
I sure hope this deal goes through well and verizon does not get ride of the Favorite 10 numbers or alltels great prepaid plan. When they join networks cell phone reception will be great.
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So Verizon now owns Alltel, huh? Will the service be any better?????
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Hey Now
I like Verizon had them for years... One day a long time ago I walked in to the At&t store I bought my phone at, and was a brand new Cingular store. My service had dropped out, I was getting other users voicemails, and my calls would not go through, A LOT!!! So I threw my phone down on the desk and said "fix it, or I'm leaving!" Ended up with me leaving. Walked right accross the parking lot to a Verizon store and have had them ever since with out a hitch. Cingusucks (now At&t -Ironic) never sent me my cancelation bill. I hope something like this doesn't happen to my service again, at least this time I'm not with the company being bought...
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Verizon OS
Verizon is good, in fact it might even have better call quality, but there phone OS looks like a kid made it. Not to mention that everything is pretty much locked down on them too. Examples, on my friends pretty expensive Verizon phone, only a blue tooth headset, MY PIX, MY FLIXS or something, I'm sorry I want my phone to look professional.
This is the reason i went with Cingular, I've gotten dropped calls a couple of times, but that's been about it. Another point is that Cingular has, in my opinion, the widest selection of phones.
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Verizon is horrible in my area.
We have terrible coverage from Verizon in my area. Where as, AT&T(Cingular) has been great. Their customer service has been responsive, their family talk plan with national coverage is a much cheaper option for me than Verizon's plans were/are.
Better phones and accessories and with my roll over minutes, I have more minutes than I can possible use up in a month.
Nope, not going to Verizon any time soon.
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if you are constantly rolling over minutes every month..do you think you might be paying too much for your service...the minutes do actually expire after a while. I liked Cingular...but AT&T customer service leaves something to be desired...plus the service isnt as good as before.
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Verizon
hmmm well i love verizon, they have great service &theyre phones are cute. i wonder when alltel will start getting verizons phones...
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idiot
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Verizon... Your world, Crippled.
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can i swich to verizon wireless b4 my two year plan for alltel is up i hope so b/c i hate alltel
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So.
are all the alltels now going to turn into verizon wireless? because i have a blackberry that could be used only with verizon, and if the altell in my town turns into verizon i could activiate it.
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verizon
alltel rocks i think verizon is terrible
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