Justice Dept. Sets Terms For Alltel, Western Wireless Merger
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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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.
