Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, is a wireless phone provider that owns and operates the largest mobile telecommunications network in the United States, based on a total of 93.2 million U.S. subscribers, only 0.4 million ahead of the second largest provider, AT&T Mobility, in Q3 2010.[1] Headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey,[2] the company is a joint venture of U.S. telecommunications firm Verizon Communications and British-based multinational mobile network operator Vodafone Group, with 55 and 45 percent ownership respectively.[3][4] Verizon Wireless had the second largest revenue of all United States wireless companies reporting $49.332 billion in 2008.[5]
On January 9, 2009, Verizon Wireless acquired Alltel Wireless in a deal valued at $28.1 billion. The acquisition expanded Verizon's wireless network to establish Verizon as the largest United States wireless carrier, based on number of subscribers
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