http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/ Engadget Comments for Verizon wraps up acquisition of Rural Cellular http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/Aug 7th 2008 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/Aug 7th 2008 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/Aug 7th 2008 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/Aug 7th 2008 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/Aug 7th 2008 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/Aug 7th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/
This is bad news for anyone who has a GSM carrier (ATT, T-Mo) and travels to rural areas covered by Unicel. What I'd give to have a national standard that all companies could develop on top of.]]>Aug 7th 2008 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/
"Verizon Wireless will begin today to serve customers in Rural Cellular
markets that will be merged with Verizon Wireless' operations. The company
will continue to use the Unicel brand for the next several months, as it
works to integrate networks, and deploy CDMA technology and high-speed
wireless broadband service. Verizon Wireless will maintain Rural Cellular's
existing GSM networks to continue serving the roaming needs of other GSM
carriers' customers."


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Thanks for pointing that out - I absolutely did read the release, and I don't think it seemed as though I was jumping to conclusions.

I guess my "presumably to eventually" wasn't clear enough - I trust none of the telcos when it comes to maintaining technologies that help promote competition. Given Verizon's tendency to try and control the entire user experience, I trust them a little less. I wonder how this will play out in the real world.]]>Aug 7th 2008 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/
SOURCE: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080806/NEWS01/80805032

Don't jump to conclusions before you've become familiar with the situation, please.]]>Aug 7th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/Aug 7th 2008 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/
Anyway, I never heard of Rural Cellular]]>Aug 7th 2008 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/
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Looser than what?]]>Aug 7th 2008 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/
Can you hear me now?]]>Aug 7th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/
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but hypothetically, seeing as how he's still doing the same on all teh more recent posts, I'd say a hearty ha-ha to one of the posters that made a comment about how "firster" was only born cause the guy's dog screwed his mom first :)]]>Aug 7th 2008 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/Aug 9th 2008 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/
Idiot.]]>Aug 7th 2008 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/Aug 7th 2008 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/
(http://news.vzw.com/news/2008/08/pr2008-08-07.html)]]>Aug 7th 2008 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/Aug 8th 2008 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/verizon-wraps-up-acquisition-of-rural-cellular/you will incur roaming fees were you never had them before , my husband and i dropped verizon after 3 months of outragous roaming fees were talking hundreds of dollars that we never had until verizon acquired unicell, the new updated system and phones causes this to occur so buyer beware we were told that by updating the roaming capabilities of our phone using 228 updated our phones and caused pinpointing of where a call was made and had us incur roaming fees

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