Verizon Wireless to buy Alltel in $28.1 billion deal
(Reuters)
<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080605/2008_06_05t100131_450x266_us_alltel_verizon.jpg?x=130&y=76&q=85&sig=MjZTYcRdcZ7Q4sCi1yT27g--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="The sign for the Verizon Wireless store is seen in Lakewood, Colorado September 11, 2007. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080605/bs_nm/alltel_verizon_dc)Reuters - Verizon Wireless said on Thursday it
would buy rural mobile phone service provider Alltel Corp for
$28.1 billion including debt, which would vault it to first
place in the U.S. market ahead of AT&T Inc.</p><br clear="all"/>
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