Alltel Wireless news from FierceWireless

Alltel has settled a class action lawsuit involving sixteen shareholders who accused the company of breaching its fiduciary duties when it agreed in November 2007 to a private equity buyout deal Read more...

According to the Financial Times, Verizon Wireless has retained Morgan Stanley to sell the overlapping assets it will have in 85 cellular markets as a result of its proposed acquisition of Alltel Read more...

The FCC has decided not to revise roaming rules that currently allow a carrier to roam in areas where they own spectrum but have not built a network. The agency had considered a proposal that would Read more...

Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam updated residents of Little Rock, Ark., on Friday about the firm's impending merger with Alltel Communications, which is headquartered there. McAdam said that Read more...

Despite strong customer growth and a 10 percent increase in revenues, Alltel reported a loss of $69.9 million, due primarily to interest costs as well as depreciation and amortization expenses Read more...

Leap Wireless along with a group of rural carriers and associations including the Rural Telecommunications Group, NTELOS, SouthernLINC Wireless, SpectrumCo, the Organization for the Promotion and Read more...

Christina Domecq CEO of SpinVox London-based SpinVox burst onto the radar screen in 2007 when it announced some key deals with North American operators including Alltel and Cincinnati Bell. The Read more...

Verizon Wireless planned $28.1 billion acquisition of Alltel may prove a losing deal for vendors such as Syniverse. Although both operators are customers of Syniverse, the combination of the two Read more...

Alltel is enhancing its popular My Circle rate plans by letting customers add unlimited text, video and picture messaging for $7.99 per month. This addition lets My Circle customers send messaging to Read more...

Alltel is finally making its white-label resell WiFi arrangement with Boingo a reality. The deal, which was first announced last October, is now available commercially across the U.S. Alltel will Read more...