electronista.com - 12/10/2008
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The US Federal Trade Commission today approved Verizon's buyout of Alltel and put the resulting company at the top of the US cellular market. The ratification follows earlier clearance by the FCC and Justice Department and finds no antitrust concern...
tech.yahoo.com - 12/10/2008
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- Verizon Wireless expects to begin deploying next-generation
LTE (Long-Term Evolution) wireless broadband within a year, a...
top executive of the carrier said Tuesday. "We expect that LTE will actually be in service somewhere here in the U.S. probably ...
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Verizon Aims for LTE Deployment in 2009 (PC World) by ...
biz.yahoo.com - 12/10/2008
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission
has removed the last regulatory hurdle for Verizon Wireless'...
purchase of Alltel Corp., which will create the country's largest wireless carrier, the agency said Wednesday. The FTC's antitrust regulators ...
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Verizon Wireless-Alltel deal gets FTC clearance: ...
dslreports.com - 12/6/2008
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Two years later, with Comcast starting to deploy
DOCSIS 3.0 speeds that match FiOS in a number...
of markets , that time has apparently come. According to Telephony Online , Verizon says they'll commercially launch 100Mbps service next year. Now that the ...
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100Mbps FiOS Will Arrive Next Year - Largely aimed at ...
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Verizon & Alltel Deal Approved
Homotron.net —
... Department all approved the deal, finding no substantive antitrust issues.
Valued at $5.9 billion but bringing $22.2 billion in debt to the deal, Alltel will add 13.7 million customers to Verizon's hand, totalling 84.5 million in thrall to the big V. The move also brings CDMA networks to the forefront, however briefly - the changeover to 4G will even that playing field.
With AT&T; and the iPhone at large, it's hard for any accusations of monopoly to stick.
Verizon/Alltel deal clears FTC, outgrows AT&T; [Electronista]
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