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• Alltel sets July 21 for Western Wireless shareholders to vote on merger.(News)

  - 2005-07-18

  Byline: JEFFREY SILVA Alltel Corp. set a July 21 deadline for Western Wireless Corp. shareholders to vote in favor of Alltel's pending acquisition of Western Wireless if they want to receive consideration in cash or shares of Alltel common stock. Alltel noted...

  Tags: Alltel Corp., E911, FCC, Government, merger, shareholder, Western Wireless Corp.

• The Federal Communications Commission last week approved Little Rock-based Alltel Corp.'s $6 billion acquisition of Western Wireless Corp of Bellevue, Wash

  - 2005-07-18

  The Federal Communications Commission last week approved Little Rock-based Alltel Corp.'s $6 billion acquisition of Western Wireless Corp of Bellevue, Wash. The FCC order contains no conditions beyond the divestitures required by the Department of Justice on July 6. The Justice Department granted tentative approval on condition that the two...

  Tags: acquisition, Alltel Corp., FCC, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Western Wireless Corp.

• Alltel, Justice Department reach terms on Western Wireless merger

  - 2005-07-06

  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Alltel (NYSE: AT) today announced it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice related to the company's pending merger with Western Wireless Corporation. Under the agreement, Alltel will divest 16 markets in Arkansas, Kansas and Nebraska now owned and operated by Western...

  Tags: Alltel Corp., FINANCE, Investment, merger, U.S. Department of Justice, Western Wireless Corp.

• Western Wireless' Irish unit faces challenges, opportunity: content with its No. 3 status in Ireland, Western Wireless unit still adds subscribers and makes money.(Western Wireless International Corp.)

  - 2005-04-15

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Meteor, the Western Wireless International subsidiary offering mobile phone service in Ireland, got off to a rocky start. When the regulatory authority in Ireland awarded a 2G license to Meteor in a beauty contest in 1998, Orange, which had also vied for the ...

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• FCC requests more detail from Alltel on Western Wireless buy.(News)

  - 2005-03-14

  The Federal Communications Commission has asked Alltel Corp. to provide additional information in regard to its pending $6 billion acquisition of Western Wireless Corp. The request, which was filed March 1 and released yesterday, follows a similar request by the Department of Justice earlier this month....

  Tags: acquisition, Alltel Corp., FCC, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Western Wireless Corp.

• Stocks to Watch Thursday: EXNT, AMTD, WWCA, MAXM.

  - 2005-03-10

  M2 PRESSWIRE-10 March 2005-StockRising.com: Stocks to Watch Thursday: EXNT, AMTD, WWCA, MAXMC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10032005 SARASOTA, Fla. - ExNet.com (OTCBB: EXNT), Ameritrade Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: AMTD), Western Wireless Corp. (Nasdaq: WWCA), Maxim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAXM) Investors...

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• US Department of Justice requests more information from Alltel and Western Wireless

  - 2005-03-03

  TELECOMWORLDWIRE-3 March 2005-US Department of Justice requests more information from Alltel and Western WirelessC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Telecomms companies Alltel Corp and Western Wireless Corp have received a request from the US Department of Justice to provide additional information on Alltel's acquisition of Western Wireless. Alltel said...

  Tags: Alltel Corp., FINANCE, Investment, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Justice, Western Wireless Corp., WIRELESS

• Rural phone service fund under siege

  - 2005-01-20

  Paul Reynolds was in cellphone Siberia. His cellphone worked fine in Sioux Falls, S.D., where he worked. But it was useless in his tiny hometown of Parker, 25 miles southwest. Neither of the state's two main carriers -- Western Wireless, Reynolds' provider, and Verizon Wireless -- felt it would...

  Tags: carrier, FCC, phone, Western Wireless Corp., Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• D.C. Briefs.(Briefs)

  - 2005-01-17

  President Bush has withdrawn certain trade benefits accorded Cote d'Ivoire, the western African nation that stormed Western Wireless Corp.'s offices in 2003 and forced the firm to shut down mobile-phone operations. The White House took action in December, removing Cote d'Ivoire from the list of countries...

  Tags: FCC, Government, handset, Western Wireless Corp., Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• Fitch Ratings Affirms ALLTEL at 'A'; Outlook Remains Stable

  - 2005-01-10

  CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings has affirmed the 'A' rating assigned to ALLTEL Corporation's ALLTEL senior unsecured debt and the 'F1' rating assigned to ALLTEL's commercial paper following the announcement that ALLTEL has reached an agreement to purchase Western Wireless Corporation Western Wireless for approximately $6.0 billion using a mix of...

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