Alltel To Go All Wireless

Rumor had it for along time here in the VZW camp that VZW has always been interested in Alltel, but never pursued it because of the hassle of the wireline side. Verizon Communications is already working to shed their wireline business due to loss. Is this the first indication of the VZW/Alltel merger coming as predicted. Take a look at all the recent data roaming agreements. VZW employees already have a comped access plan for coverage on native VZW and Alltel. We are already seeing a network integration on some level. Although the Western Wireless thing throws me for a curve. Is it possible that Alltel wants to become the next CDMA player on the National Level?

Questions, Comments, Concerns . . .

I'm surprised Alltel is selling the wireline business to Valor, especially when Valor is so small and so regional (basically Texas and surrounding states) compared to Alltel and other possible buyers such as CenturyTel. Then again, the deal seems structured to merge Valor into Alltel then spin off the wireline business to both companies' shareholders (kinda like what is going with Sprint Nextel and LTD), so maybe it isn't so strange after all.

As for PSC's GSM, it's unclear from the RCR article if they plan to "forcibly" migrate former PSC GSM customers (however few of them there are...PSC only sold GSM for a few months) to CDMA or if they plan to shut off and dismantle the GSM network, especially when Alltel could significantly expand i...
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