For Alltel customers waiting patiently for the Pre to make its official debut on North American soil, they will soon be able to tide over desires for the touchscreen device with the Palm Treo Pro. If you want to show your Palm love, Alltel is set to launch the Treo pro in a few days,…
JD Power declares T-Mobile USA tops in customer care
Confirming, yet again, that T-Mobile is pushing hard to keep the JD Power Customer Care trophy on their mantle, JD Power has just named T-Mobile USA the No. 1 US wireless carrier in terms of customer care. JD Power conducted their customer satisfaction survey from July through December of 2008, and included more than 13,000…
Verizon Wireless is officially the largest mobile operator in the States; Alltel is a done deal!
Just as we expected, Verizon Wireless has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Alltel Corporation from Atlantis Holdings LLC, creating the largest wireless carrier in the United States as a result. Verizon paid approximately $5.9 billion for the equity of Alltel, and assumed Alltel’s debt of approximately $22.2 billion. The acquisition expands Verizon…
Verizon: Alltel deal to close on January 9th
Verizon will have big news to announce during the CES in Las Vegas. Now that FCC and DoJ have cleared the deal, the carrier is moving forward closing it and expect to do so on Friday, January 9th. As a result, Verizon Wireless will emerge as a single largest wireless carrier in the United States…
Alltel Launches Outdoorsy GPS App
Quickly behind their new e-mail application, Alltel has announced a GPS application for the Motorola V3A, V3C, V3M, V9M and K1M, the Samsung Muse, LG AX656 and AX8600, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 and the BlackBerry Pearl 8110. Now, keep in mind Alltel was recently acquired by Verizon, so we may be seeing some GPS locking…
Alltel Launches Mobile E-Mail App
Alltel just announced a handy little application to allow subscribers to quickly and easily access their web-based e-mail from all Windows Mobile smartphones as well as the Samsung Delve, the LG Scoop, the Samsung Hue, the MotoRAZR V3a and MotoK1m. For the more enterprising folks out there, Alltel Mobile E-mail will support Outlook Web Access,…
Verizon-Alltel acquisition deal cleared by FTC
It’s finally official. Verizon Wireless will soon become the largest wireless carrier in the US when it finalizes its acquisition of Alltel. The last regulatory obstacle standing in the way of the Verizon-Alltel deal has been hurdled with the US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) approval of the deal. With the FCC and US DoJ already…
mFoundry-powered Alltel Wallet to debut next year
Alltel Wireless will launching the mobile wallet service powered by San Francisco, California-based mFoundry — the same company that powers mobile banking solutions for Verizon and Sprint. The so called Alltel Wallet will initially provide access to a consolidated mobile banking service, allowing customers to access a wide variety of financial institutions. mFoundry’s technology combines…
Top 5 US wireless carriers for Q3 2008
The third quarter of this year ended with some interesting wireless developments, but industry leaders remained entrenched in their US-rankings. With the FCC’s approval of the deal, Verizon had cleared their last regulatory hurdle in their bid to acquire wireless carrier Alltel. The merger will give Verizon Wireless the subscriber-base to leap-frog over AT&T into…
Motorola Hint QA30 lands on Alltel
Take a look at the image above and tell me that the Motorola’s latest device doesn’t remind you on Pantech-made Verizon Blitz. It’s the same / very similar kind of device, sporting a full QWERTY keyboard under the sliding mechanism. Just like the Verizon’s QWERTY slider, the Motorola Hint QA30 — which is available on…