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Article: Alltel adds 2.6 million cellular customers with 360 Degrees. (360 Degrees Communications Co.)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- July 6, 1998
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Alltel Corp. completed its $4.2 billion acquisition of 360 [degrees] Communications Co. last week and immediately inherited more than 2.6 million cellular telephone customers.
That more than triples the number of cellular customers Alltel now has. The Little Rock-based firm had 976,000 cellular customers before the merger was completed.
"There is no cellular license over-lap between the territories that Alltel and 360 [degrees] serve, which gives us a much larger footprint for wireless service," says Joe Ford, Alltel's chairman and chief executive officer, in a prepared statement after the completion of the merger on July 1.
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