There’s nothing like a little election season rush to light the fires under bureaucratic feet. Rather than take their sweet time in reviewing the Sprint/Clearwire and Verizon/Alltel wireless mergers (like they usually do), the FCC has announced that they are fast-tracking the review process and hopes to have decisions ready by the end of 2008.…
Motorola VE20 lands on Alltel
Following Sprint, Alltel has announced the Motorola VE20. Nothing new here as we’ve already seen the Moto-made clamshell passing through FCC and even “in the wild” wearing the Sprint’s badge, and I guess we kinda expected to see other CDMA carriers picking it up. The VE20 is a classic Moto mid-ranger, sporting a 2 megapixel…
Alltel to get the HTC Touch Pro, too?
Every single big carrier seems to think about expanding its portfolio with one of the latest HTC smartphones. Alltel is not an exception hence they’ll be adding the HTC Touch Pro in the near future. What exactly is the “near future” we’re not sure at the moment. We do, however, find the image above as…
Alltel Wireless introduces the future of wireless greetings with the launch of Alltel Avatars
Alltel Avatars is a new service from Alltel that allows users to send 3D animated MMS greetings to their friends. The service enables users to choose from a library of pre-produced greetings or use templates to create their own greeting using 3D avatars, photos, voice and more. To put it in other words, you can…
Top Ten US Wireless Carriers
RCRWireless has compiled a list of the Top Ten US Wireless Carriers for 2Q 2008. There’s no big surprise here, with AT&T still leading Verizon as the top two US wireless carriers. But, the data is still interesting to look at. We see that AT&T is still No. 1 in the rankings, but only just.…
Palm pushes out Verizon Palm Treo 700p and Alltel Palm Treo 700wx ROM updates
The aging Palm Treo 700 platform has apparently gotten some ROM-update love on the down-low. Palm has pushed out two new ROM updates to its Verizon Palm Treo 700p and Alltel Palm Treo 700wx devices with nary a peep. The Palm OS-powered Palm Treo 700p for Verizon gets a radio ROM update that is said…
Alltel adds 319,687 subscribers in Q2 2008, posts loss for quarter
Just because they’re getting setup to be absorbed by No. 2 (for now, at least) US wireless carrier Verizon Wireless doesn’t mean they don’t have to, or want to, for that matter, increase their presence in the US. Alltel has done a bang-up job at amassing more customers to keep in their subscriber piggy-bank. In…
Leap moves to block Verizon-Alltel merger
It’s not just AT&T and the Rural Cellular Association that are asking the FCC to help muck-up competing wireless carriers’ merger deals. Leap Wireless has asked the FCC to block the $28.1 billion Verizon-Alltel merger deal that would have Verizon becoming the top wireless provider in the US. The merger between Sprint and Clearwire would…
Verizon Wireless divest some assets to complete the planned Alltel acquisition
Verizon Wireless will divest some assets to meet Department of Justice approval so it could continue with its intended purchase of Alltel. The CDMA carrier agreed to sell off 85 markets across 18 states, where its services overlap with Alltel’s. Affected areas include North Dakota and South Dakota as well certain areas in California, Colorado,…
FCC shows HTC NEON 400 – CDMA HTC Touch Dual on the way
The CDMA market isn’t exactly HTC’s bread-and-butter market, what with GSM handsets being the way to go for most of the developed world, but that doesn’t mean the Taiwanese smartphone maker isn’t going to give the US some touchscreen Windows Mobile love. Spotted hanging out with the FCC’s laboratory engineers, the HTC NEON400 hints at…