Alltel has long been considered the most interesting part of the second set of phone companies. What makes the acquisition of Verizon Wireless for $ 28100000000 something of a milestone. If the deal is completed, the new drive is bigger than AT & T, and then the nation's largest wireless service provider. Of course, as with any acquisition of this size, the exact impact is not visible for a long time.
In any context, this is a big problem. Alltel has 13Million customers in 34 states, mainly in the south-west and East. The new company will be more than 80 million subscribers, comfortably more than AT & T's 71.4 million.
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And 'axiomatic to say that the success of any merger or acquisition depends largely on how skillfully makes the new company for the integration and other business issues. Both companies use Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). As of the same basic technical foundations built on economies of scale inPurchasing and makes the combined company more cohesive.
The wild card is that the mobile phone industry is in the throes of upheaval. The market shifted its focus from voice, data. They can make the network model by limiting people to a specific mobile network, is beginning to fade. The industry has yet to discover how fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) platforms for use. As we have already suggested this week, FMC is always hot. Experts suggest, however, thatthere is no real reason for optimism this time.
The network standard in the river, as the introduction of 3G interfaces and the focus shifts to 4G.. This is an extremely important issue for the mobile phone industry always seems as if LTE - Long Term Evolution - will win. It was developed by AT & T, Verizon Wireless and Alltel have been chosen, is another area where companies are coalescing on the same page. There will be a long and challengingTransition, but since LTE is still relatively early in their development cycle.
The other carriers are not silent, of course. Perhaps by chance, or maybe just a little 'take the shine off the Verizon / Alltel announcement, AT & T said earlier this week that he jacked up the speed of its 3G services. The top-down connection speed, this story says, the speed increases by more than 20 percent and higher upload speeds by 50 percent. It is much closer torelease, but the bottom line is that changes in higher-speed uplink and downlink of 1.7 Mbps and 1.2 Mbps, to bring each.
Numerous mergers and acquisitions succeed or fail, depending on how the new company is engaged in an essentially static field. The Verizon / Alltel marriage might be a little 'different, its fate will depend on how you react to the changes that are only beginning to happen.
The future calls for Alltel and Verizon Wireless