Cellubration

As we reported last week Verizon Wireless has officially announced their new month to month plans with no contract.  The new plans include no early termination fees, but also require customers to bring their own devices into the mix or purchase a Verizon capable CDMA phone at full cost, which can be quite costly. 

Current Verizon customers will of course have to live out their contract before they can jump ship to the month to month calling program.

On September 21st 2008 Verizon Wireless is expected to announce their new no-contract postpaid cell phone plans.  Under the companies new open network users will be able to bring their own devices to the table, or buy devices from Verizon Wireless at full cost.

While a contract will not be necessary customers will still be subject to an activation fee and they'll still have to have a credit check run since they will still be on a postpaid payment system.  

Under the plan customers will be ab

J.D. Power and Associates have concluded their study on national wireless carriers, and it turns out that CDMA carrier Verizon Wireless offers the best call quality according to actual users. 

The study which was broken down into regions gave Verizon Wireless the first place ranking in the West Regions, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast, and a tie was awarded with Sprint Wireless in the Southwest.

Not wanting to be outdone, soon to be Verizon Wireless owned Alltel Wireless had a good showing

Thursday, August 7th 2008 --  Its official, Verizon Wireless has announced the completion of their takeover bid for Rural Cellular, a GSM carrier under the Unicel brand. Because of the takeover Verizon will receive 625,000 new customers and area licenses that cover 4.7 million people.  Current standing Rural Cellular stores will soon receive Verizon Wireless branding and customers will slowly be converted over to CDMA service. 

Verizon will leave the GSM tomorrows in tac

Monday, August 4th 2008 -- Verizon Wireless was given FCC approval today in their attempt to purchase Rural Cellular. Just as Verizon was asked to do with their recent announcement of an Alltel buyout the companies will both be forced to sell off licenses in several different markets.

The license sell off will include one license in New York, three licences in Vermont and two in Washington.  The RCC takeover will cost Verizon Wireless $2.67 billion and will give the company access

Thursday, July 24th 2008 -- Verizon Wireless showed today how serious they are when it comes to acquiring Alltel Wireless. Verizon has announced plans to sell off holdings in 85 markets throughout 18 states in which Verizon Wireless services overlap with Alltel areas of service. Verizon has also agrees to certain roaming conditions. Even with these concessions it does not mean the sale will be approved, as the FCC may force the wireless carrier to make other concessions before finalizing the

Sunday, June 13th 2008 --  Verizon Wireless has agreed to settle their early termination fees class action lawsuit for $21 million, a sum much less than the originally reported asking amount of $1 billion.

Verizon Wireless spokepeople meantime downplayed the settlement, actually stating that they settled because it "was a distraction" and that the $21 million was a "quick way to resolve it"

Meanwhile many regulators believe the settlement may give FCC Charimen Kevin Martin

Thursday, July 10th 2008 -- Verizon Wireless pre-paid customers using the INPulse non-contract plans have reason to rejoice today. Verizon has announced that those customers can now purchase unlimited text messaging plans for the low cost of only $10.

There is one catch, the unlimited text messaging is only available between Verizon contract and pre-paid customers, not outside company lines. However, the unlimited plan will offer 250 text messages to be used with users on outside networ

Thursday, June 5th 2008 -- Verizon Wireless has announced plans today to increase their customer base. The company will acquire Alltel Wireless for a reported $28.1 Billion Dollars, and should close the deal by the end of 2008 with proper regulatory approval.

Tuesday, June 03 2008 -- Verizon Wireless announced plans today to offer a push based email service for business users that does not rely on a PDA Style of phone, but rather will push email via Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to a non-PDA cell phone.

April 17th, 2008 -- Verizon Wireless doesn't want to wait two years for payment from Sprint Wireless. With 10 million dollars worth of Interconnect fees at stake who could blame them.

Monday, April 7th 2008 -- Verizon Wireless has released their intentions for the C block of spectrum they won with their bid in the recent FCC spectrum auctions.

Verizon Wireless doesn't extend the length of their contracts if a customer changes their phone plans, and they want Alltel Wireless to realize it. After several ads ran in which Alltel claimed to be the only cellular provider to offer such services, Verizon has filed papers to sue the CDMA carrier on the grounds of False advertising.

Verizon has announced that they will in fact suppor the new Open source Google Mobile Operating System known as Google. The move comes after a short hold out by the wireless carrier that last less than a month since the release of Androids Software Developer Kit.