According to NYT,AT&T announced Friday evening that it would buy Centennial Communications, a regional wireless phone company, for $944 million in cash, a price that is more than double Centennial’s stock market value.
AT&T is locked in a fierce battle with Verizon Wireless to dominate the nation’s cellphone service business. Verizon surged past AT&T as the [...]

Alltel Wireless and LG Electronics  announced today that LG Rhythm is available in Alltel retail stores and online at shopalltel.com.
LG Rhythm is a music phone which comes with Digital Signal Processing, a graphic equalizer, an internal FM transmiter and a 3.5 mm stereo headset and a microphone that can toggle from music to calls [...]

Alltel Wireless, announced the availability of TimecardGPS, an application that enables users to track an employee’s location, record shift time and capture job or work order information from LBS-enabled wireless phones.
Available for $12.49 per handset per month, the service covers:

Tracking - Enables supervisors to request field workers’ locations, track movement and set up “smart fences” [...]