Verizon Wireless agreed to buy Alltel for $28.1 billion, including $22.2 billion in debt, vaulting the combined company to first place in the U.S. mobile services market ahead of AT&T . Verizon said ...

Shares in rural wireless provider Alltel surged more than 6% on Monday after it agreed to a $25 billion buyout by TPG Capital and the buyout arm of Goldman Sachs in one of the largest-ever private ...

Alltel, the mobile phone company, announced a new service plan this evening that lets customers make free calls to any 10 numbers regardless of the cellphone or land-line carrier of the person being ...

Verizon Wireless' $28.1 billion acquisition of regional carrier Alltel Wireless is finally complete, making the combined company the largest wireless carrier in the United States. Marguerite Reardon ...

Alltel agreed to sell to one team of bidders on Sunday. TPG Capitol and Goldman Sachs will buy the carrier, including assuming its debt, for $71.50 per share or about $27.5 billion. The companies ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Alltel Corp., the nation’s fifth-largest wireless carrier, was taken private Friday to complete a $24.7 billion buyout by two private equity groups. The deal earlier won approval ...

Alltel is running a back-to-school promotion for new and existing customers with My Circle plans, Smart Choice Packs, and Bundled Wireless Internet. Under the terms of the promotion, customers can add ...

With so many telecom stocks bumping along at single-digit levels, value investors are tempted to take a closer look at this beaten-down sector. These stocks are nothing if not cheap, and some of them ...

Bellevue-based Western Wireless reached a deal last night to be acquired by Alltel for $4.4 billion — a move that will uproot yet another wireless company from the Puget Sound area. Executives from ...