Mergers and Acquisitions news from FierceWireless

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...

Sprint and Clearwire wasted no time responding to AT&T's request to deny the planned joint venture between the two companies. Last week, AT&T said that the Sprint/Clearwire venture would Read more...

AT&T has asked the FCC to deny the planned merger between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire. The operator, which has the largest subscriber base in the U.S., argued that the venture would eventually Read more...

AT&T added 1.3 million subscribers in the second-quarter and said net income increased 30 percent as the company benefited from a surge in wireless data use. The operator posted net income of Read more...

At its Aug. 1 meeting, the FCC will likely evaluate the pending $2.67 billion merger between Verizon Communications and Rural Cellular Corp. The merger, which was announced in July 2007, would allow Read more...

The European Commission approved Nokia's acquisition of digital map data firm Navteq. The deal is supposed to close within the next five business days. Nokia first announced its $8.1 billion Read more...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Verizon Communications is in talks to acquire No. 5 wireless carrier Alltel Corp. The deal, which could be valued at around $27 billion, is complex because Read more...

Vodafone made its first acquisition in the mobile Internet space, paying $49 million in cash for Zyb, a private Dutch company provides social networking and contacts management technology--two hot Read more...

Alcatel-Lucent shareholders will hold their annual meeting May 30 and will vote on a resolution that would enable the board to remove the CEO by a majority vote rather than the two-thirds vote Read more...

While Alltel recently became a private company, the carrier still decided to release a number of key metrics for its past quarter. The company's revenues totaled $2.3 billion, which is an 11 percent Read more...