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TracFone Wireless, Inc. (TFWI) is an American wireless prepaid service provider.It is a mobile virtual network operator offering prepaid and no-contract services on the Verizon network under multiple brands, including TracFone, Straight Talk Wireless, Total Wireless, Simple Mobile, SafeLink Wireless, and Walmart Family Mobile in partnership with Walmart.
Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the United States lease wireless telephone and data service from the four major cellular carriers in the country—AT&T Mobility, Boost Mobile, T-Mobile US, and Verizon—and offer various levels of free and/or paid talk, text and data services to their customers.
The merger was approved by the Federal Communications Commission on the condition that Verizon divest 105 Alltel markets. On May 8, 2009, AT&T announced it would acquire 79 of the divested wireless properties, including licenses, network assets, and 1.5 million current subscribers, primarily in rural areas across 18 states.
There have been a number of huge merger deals in the not-too-distant past whose buyout numbers reached into low orbit. The most notorious -- and most scoffed at -- must be when AOL met Time Warner ...
The joint venture was being created as Bell Atlantic underwent a merger with GTE Corporation. In April 2000, the companies announced that the Bell Atlantic–GTE merger would take the name Verizon and that the Bell Atlantic–Vodafone wireless unit would be called Verizon Wireless (legally Cellco Partnership d.b.a. Verizon Wireless). [16]
The blockbuster deal that Verizon (NYS: VZ) made earlier this month with SpectrumCo can no longer expect to pass. Now that the AT&T (NYS: T) merger is off the table, a new telecom proposal can get ...
Spectrum assets acquired by Verizon Wireless, service to any customers remaining on the network was shut off after February 28, 2015. [51] Cleartalk affiliate of Clear Talk Wireless: CDMA2000: EV-DO, LTE: Unknown: 2016: WGH Communications sold South Carolina licenses to T-Mobile US and exited the business ClearTalk Wireless Flat Wireless ...
Verizon Communications Inc and its Straight Path Communications Inc unit paid a $614 million civil penalty as part of a January 2017 settlement with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, the ...