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Subscribers in Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Madison Heights, Martinsville and South Boston, Va., this weekend became the first Alltel customers to be switched to Verizon Wireless-branded service since the company's $28.1 billion acquisition of Alltel closed in early January.
Verizon spent the past few months integrating Alltel's network, switching over the billing systems, upgrading wireless broadband service and re-merchandising stores. Verizon's acquisition of Alltel made it the nation's largest wireless carrier in terms of total subscribers, with more than 80 million.
As a condition of the acquisition, Verizon agreed to divest 105 markets where its service overlapped with Alltel's. AT&T said in early May it would buy a large portion of the assets for $2.35 billion.
For more:
- see this release
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Comments
Posted by Anonymous | June 1, 2009 - 3:29pm
Hey hopefully verizon will cover central va as good as us cellular. Alltel was spotty
Posted by Ian L | June 2, 2009 - 11:51am
Whichever network was better in an area, they'll keep. If Alltel and Verizon both serviced that area in a major way, one network will be sold off to AT&T, so coverage will change a bit. Verizon prides itself in its network, so coverage should improve though.
Posted by Anonymous | July 5, 2009 - 9:48pm
I have been a Alltel customer for many years. I tried to get a upgrade from Verizon and they said that my phone was not from Verizon and therefor could not be up graded. If that is true then why can I still use my phnoe.
Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 - 2:07pm
Because Verizon wants to sell you new phone so that they can make more money so they lie to you.
Posted by Anonymous | August 12, 2009 - 8:59pm
I have been an Alltel customer for years as well and Verizon has taken over our phone numbers and now I am finding out I will have roaming in areas I used to have coverage because I have an alltel plan yet pay verizon. I told the customer rep that this is not giving the company points for me to want to switch to their network. First it will cost me more and second i feel they are trying to bully me to do it. (Not an enthused customer)
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