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Justice Dept. Sets Terms For Alltel, Western Wireless Merger

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Jul 6, 2005, 4:18 PM   by (staff)

Alltel today announced it has reached an agreement with the US Justice Dept. on the terms of their acquisition of Western Wireless. The company will have to divest Western Wireless's CDMA business in 13 markets over Arkansas, Kansas and Nebraska. These are markets where Alltel already offers CDMA service, and the move will prevent Alltel from having a CDMA monopoly in those areas. Alltel will get to keep Western Wireless's GSM roaming assets, spectrum, and coverage of Lincoln, Nebraska under the Justice Department agreement. The FCC as well as both companies' shareholders still need to approve the merger before it is complete.

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FONdude

Jul 6, 2005, 6:28 PM

CDMA divestiture

Does anyone know what band Western Wireless operates its CDMA network in? 800 or 1900? Just wondering who may interested in acquiring it. Likely candidates are probably VZW, Sprint, & US Cellular, given that their networks are CDMA.
according to the annual reports they have both 800 and 1.9ghz. hope that helps 🙂
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I would not be surprised by VZW to buy the divestiture markets from Alltel to complete this merger. Alltel and VZW are good partners. These are markets where VZW does not have spectrum or lic to sell.
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ripley

Jul 6, 2005, 4:44 PM

roaming agreements

i wonder what cingular is going to do now that their roaming agreements might be in jeopardy.
Roaming agreements are not voided by this merger if signed for a specific time period. Also, Alltel would have no incentive to drop these agreements since theywould make a good chunk of money picking up Cingular's check each month.
 
 
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