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A smaller portion of the network operated briefly as Allied Wireless before also being absorbed by AT&T in 2013.

Within 18 months, announced it would acquire Alltel for $28.1 billion. Why? Because Verizon wanted exactly what Alltel had built—that massive, seamless rural footprint. The deal closed in 2009. Over the next three years, Verizon dismantled the Alltel brand, converted the towers, and absorbed the customers. By 2013, "Alltel" was gone. alltel expansion