Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on a total of 83.7 million U.S. subscribers, ahead of AT&T Mobility's 74.9 million subscribers. Verizon Wireless has the largest revenue of all United States wireless companies reporting $43.9 billion in 2007. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, the company is a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group, with 55 and 45 percent ownership respectively. On January 9, 2009, Verizon Wireless acquired Alltel Wireless in a deal valued at $28.1 billion. The acquisition expanded Verizon's wireless network to cover approximately 290 million people and established Verizon as the largest United States wireless carrier.

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SNL's Version of a Verizon Ad

SNL makes fun of Verizon's 4G LTE marketing. Watch the video. Is it parody or reality. Read more 1 day ago, 3:18am CST

 

Verizon Admits To 4G LTE "Growing Pains"

Company acknowledges multiple outages Read more Dec 30 2011, 2:01pm CST

 

Verizon Wireless to Pay $3.6B for Spectrum from SpectrumCo

Verizon wants MORE (spectrum) Read more Dec 2 2011, 12:38pm CST

 

Black Friday: Free RAZR 4G with $100 Gift Card is Bestseller and Still In Stock

Amazon's no limits Penny Pincher Sale offers the Best Black Friday 2011 Smartphone Deal of the year. Read more Nov 23 2011, 1:26pm CST

 

The Best Black Friday 2011 Smartphone Deal

Amazon's no limits Penny Pincher Sale makes the Best Black Friday 2011 Smartphone Deal already available today. Read more Nov 22 2011, 7:02pm CST

 

Motorola Droid RAZR 4G is $0.01 with Free $100 Gift Card on Amazon Black Friday Deals Week Sale

Get one of the newest and best Android smartphones for free. When you activate Hotspot feature you get also a $100 gift card. Read more Nov 22 2011, 12:49am CST

 

LivingSocial Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals unveiled

Groupon competitor will offer Black Friday deals from Verizon, Electronic Arts, OfficeMax, NYTimes, Sketchers and more Read more Nov 21 2011, 3:37pm CST

 

LivingSocial to Offer Nation-wide Black Friday Deals

Groupon competitor will offer Black Friday deals from Verizon, Electronic Arts and Sketchers. Read more Nov 21 2011, 1:01am CST

 

Wirefly Verizon Wireless Free Phone Event Save up to $200 vs. In-Store Prices

Wirefly offers new smartphone deals in their Black Friday Now sale. Read more Nov 17 2011, 3:05pm CST

 

Verizon Wireless and Casio Unveils Rugged G'zOne Ravine 2 Mobile Phone

Rugged flip phone lands this month Read more Nov 15 2011, 12:51pm CST

 

Droid RAZR Pre-order launches Today at 8am EST

DROID RAZR by Motorola is the world’s thinnest 4G LTE smartphone and you can pre-order it today for $299.99 with new contract on Verizon Wireless. Read more Oct 27 2011, 6:30am CDT

 

Motorola Droid RAZR is World's Thinnest 4G LTE Phone

New Motorola Droid RAZR will give the Samsung Galaxy SII a run for the money. Read more Oct 18 2011, 1:33pm CDT

 

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