http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/05/09/atandt-verizon-swap-wireless-markets/

“We suppose you could think of AT&T and Verizon as football teams and wireless markets as high-priced players, because a few of ‘em just got traded like the athletic pieces of meat that they are. It’s no secret that Verizon had to offload some markets to satisfy government requirements following its Alltel buy, and AT&T has now agreed in principle to pick up about 1.5 million subscribers’ worth of spectrum and equipment in 79 market areas — mostly rural — for some $2.35 billion in cash. In the other direction, Verizon will be cutting AT&T a check for $240 million in exchange for about 120,000 subs in five legacy Centennial markets — contingent, of course, on the successful completion of AT&T’s purchase of Centennial. Interesting moves, but it’ll be even more interesting to see which move leads its team to the playoffs… er, you know what we mean.

Read – AT&T agrees to acquire divestiture properties from Verizon
Read – Verizon acquires certain Centennial Wireless properties from AT&T”

Prepare to be assimilated!

So, didn’t we see word a couple weeks back that ATT was picking up the divested markets and Verizon was getting a bunch of rural ATT customers plus cash in exchange? Could of swore I read that somewhere (BG, Fierce, IntoMobile, Engadget, somewhere…).

Sheesh!

BTW, the magic solution was, of course, the last call which only took six minutes. A sharp tech named Mark finally figured out that the re-established data plan had not been properly “provisioned” on the RIM network even though the new Vzw acct now showed my data plan. One minute after hitting the switch, the emails came flooding thru!