Verizon to Merge with Alltel?
With the recent take over of ATT, Cingular now has the most customers. (old news) So does anyone thing there will be new merger between Verizon and Alltel? Alltel and Verizon already share alot of the same networks with roaming agreements and such. With these 2 companies together, Verizon and CDMA will be back on top...
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Ain't gonna happen. Nor will Verizon buy or merge with US Cellular. Both Alltel and USCC are owned by Landline phone companies, and Verizon Communications (the landline company that owns 55% of VZW) is doing their darnedest to shed rural landlines. They would pick up a bunch of them if they bought either Alltel or US Cellular.
Every month or so, somebody raises this same question involving either Alltel or USCC.
I suggest finding something else to speculate about, as neither purchase/merger is going to happen anytime soon.
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Every month or so, somebody raises this same question involving either Alltel or USCC.
I suggest finding something else to speculate about, as neither purchase/merger is going to happen anytime soon.
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VZW + Alltel + US Cellular + Sprint PCS = Downfall of GSM in US. 😈
Not to mention, that would be one hell of a merger and one major f**k up on the FCC's part. 🙄
Not to mention, that would be one hell of a merger and one major f**k up on the FCC's part. 🙄
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_m0nkey.. said:It very well could happen. Verizon's been talking about buying Alltel outright for about a year and a half now.
wouldn't/ couldn't happen, called a monopoly=illegal
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i agree verizon wireless needs to buy the rural area carrier such as alltel to help boost the amount of customers and also coverage in rural areas. 😁
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Miami786vzw said:
i agree verizon wireless needs to buy the rural area carrier such as alltel to help boost the amount of customers and also coverage in rural areas. 😁
Of the smaller CDMA carriers, ALLTEL is definitely in the best shape. Almost NO debt load, their network is in excellent shape, the tower equipment is fairly new, etc. In fact, ALLTEL uses the same infrastructure equipment that VZW uses, for the most part - that's why features carry over so seamlessly from ALLTEL to VZW.
What I think would be a bit more likely is that ALLTEL would spin off their wireless division, or sell it outright to VZW, and they would keep their landline/DSL/Cable entities for themselves.
That being said, I can't ...
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First off Verizon-Alltel could happen but is questionable...First they share towers for roaming...They are real similar...As for Verizon buying Sprint it will never happen...Sprint-Nextel marriage is a perfect fit...Sprint has the cdma/pcs and data that Nextel needs...and Nextel has the best PTT in the industry...Sprint-Nextel as it will be called will grow at a rapid rate Nextel has the lowest churn rate of any provider...and with the added data abilities for business and with Sprints cdma/psc it will in time become a force to be reckoned...
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excuse me BUT that comment was made in response to post made by Justi2202 where he/she
implied the merger of ALL of these companies ....."VZW + Alltel + US Cellular + Sprint PCS = Downfall of GSM in US. " not just verizon and alltel, SO...my comment stands
_m0nkey.. said:
wouldn't/ couldn't happen, called a monopoly=illegal
THANK YOU!
implied the merger of ALL of these companies ....."VZW + Alltel + US Cellular + Sprint PCS = Downfall of GSM in US. " not just verizon and alltel, SO...my comment stands
_m0nkey.. said:
wouldn't/ couldn't happen, called a monopoly=illegal
THANK YOU!
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muchdrama said:_m0nkey.. said:It very well could happen. Verizon's been talking about buying Alltel outright for about a year and a half now.
wouldn't/ couldn't happen, called a monopoly=illegal
what i dont understand is.. how is a Verizon/Alltel merger a monopoly.. but the Cingulatt, and Sprint-Nextel mergers arent? they're not that far apart in customer base right now.
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Yeah, I don't get that one either. How many wireless customers does Alltel have anyway?
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Looked it up. Alltell's got 8.2 million cellular customers, plus a few million in their other businesses.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/realcities/business/10 ... »
So if VZW merged with Alltel (and that's a 'beeg' IF), the combined company would have about 50 million cellular customers.
Does having 50 mil out of the 170 million or so US cellular customers constitute having a monopoly?
http://www.realcities.com/mld/realcities/business/10 ... »
So if VZW merged with Alltel (and that's a 'beeg' IF), the combined company would have about 50 million cellular customers.
Does having 50 mil out of the 170 million or so US cellular customers constitute having a monopoly?
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_m0nkey.. said:
wouldn't/ couldn't happen, called a monopoly=illegal
Maybe not with something the size of Alltel (or US Cellular), but out here in Northern California, Verizon just bought Mountain Cellular (and another 10K customers).
Maybe VZW will just do a lot of 'mini-mergers' in strategic locales instead of one 'beeg' merger?
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That sounds much more feasible then the comment that I was replying to by Justi2202....who made the ridiculous comment ... about merging verizon alltel sprint pcs and US Cellular, and how that would be a huge screw up on the part of the FCC...don't worry I don't think they'll let THAT get by them..lol
Anyway I do agree w/ the above post, it's the way wireless has been doing it for years.
Anyway I do agree w/ the above post, it's the way wireless has been doing it for years.
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There have been attempts by Verizon to buy certain of USCC's markets, especially in the West but USCC would maintain their midwest and Carolina clusters. As for buying Alltel that would be a good fit for VZW.
As far as being the end of GSM, that remains to be seen. It certainly hurts the GSM community to have Sprint and Nextel merge. All of those Nextel customers could very well have gon to a WCDMA network, but now it looks like it will be a CDMA network. This means only about 1/3 of the US market will be GSM while the other 2/3 will be CDMA.
As far as being the end of GSM, that remains to be seen. It certainly hurts the GSM community to have Sprint and Nextel merge. All of those Nextel customers could very well have gon to a WCDMA network, but now it looks like it will be a CDMA network. This means only about 1/3 of the US market will be GSM while the other 2/3 will be CDMA.
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