Alltel to Buy Western Wireless for &#36;6 Bln
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Rural telephone company Alltel Corp.  on Monday said it would acquire Western Wireless Corp.  for &#36;6 billion in a move that will increase its customers in the Western United States and make it the fifth-largest U.S. wireless carrier.
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Shares of Western Wireless Corp.  WWCA.O climbed 16 percent before the bell on Thursday after  the New York Times reported rural U.S. telephone company Alltel  Corp. AT.N is in advanced negotiations to buy Western  Wireless.
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Sprint has agreed to buy mobile telephone company Nextel Communications in a deal worth $35.17 billion, combining the No. 3 and No. 5 U.S. wireless carriers and creating a new company with about 40 million customers.
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Cingular Wireless, the nation&#39;s largest mobile-telephone operator, said that it would sell some airwave rights and customers to the Alltel Corporation for $170 million to satisfy government conditions on its purchase of AT&amp;T Wireless Services.
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PHILADELPHIA/NEW YORK  - Sprint Corp. is in  advanced talks to buy Nextel Communications Inc. for more than  $36 billion in a mostly stock deal that would combine the No. 3  and No. 5 U.S. wireless service carriers, sources familiar with  the situation said on Friday.
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Sprint Corp. on Wednesday agreed to  buy wireless telephone company Nextel Communications Inc. in a  cash and stock deal worth about $35.17 billion to gain more  business customers and more wireless airwaves to transmit  calls.
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America&#39;s third-largest mobile operator, Sprint, yesterday agreed to buy the fifth-largest, Nextel, in a well-flagged cash and shares deal worth $36.3billion (Â£19billion).
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Deutsche Telekom  said on Monday its mobile phone division T-Mobile USA had agreed to buy SunCom Wireless for about $1.6 billion.
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Sprint Corp. on Wednesday agreed to  buy wireless telephone company Nextel Communications Inc. in a  cash and stock deal worth as much as $38.45 billion to gain  more business customers and more wireless airwaves to transmit  calls.
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Equipment maker ADC Telecommunications  Inc said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy Andrew Corp in an  all-stock deal worth about &#36;2 billion, which will bolster its  position in the wireless equipment industry.
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Sprint Corp.  said on Wednesday it would buy mobile telephone company Nextel Communications Inc.  for about &#36;36 billion, creating a U.S. wireless carrier with nearly 40 million subscribers.
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Arch Wireless Inc. can complete its &#36;367 million acquisition of Metrocall Holdings Inc.
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Qualcomm Inc. figures to expand is presence in the European wireless arena with the $36 million purchase of Trigenix. Founded in 2000, United Kingdom-based Trigenix develops
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NEW YORK -- Alltel Corp. , the nation's sixth-largest wireless carrier, is in advanced negotiations about buying Western Wireless Corp. , a Northwest regional carrier which operates mainly under the Cellular One brand, for roughly $4 billion, according to a published report.
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By TOM PARSONS Associated Press  LITTLE ROCK -- A pair of investment firms have agreed to acquire Alltel Corp., the fifth-biggest U.S. wireless company and owner of the nation's largest geographic network, in a deal worth $24.8 billion.
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Rural telephone company Alltel Corp.  AT.N on Monday said it would acquire Western Wireless Corp.  WWCA.O for $6 billion in a move that will increase its  customers in the Western United States and make it the  fifth-largest U.S. wireless carrier.
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NEW YORK: Verizon Wireless said on Thursday it had signed an agreement with NextWave Telecom to purchase all of its airwave licences for $3bn.