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===Partners acquired by Verizon Wireless=== * [[Unicel]] (Rural Cellular Corporation - AL, KS, MA, MN, MS, OR, ME, NH) Completed August 2008<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.vzw.com/news/2008/08/pr2008-08-07.html|title=Verizon Wireless Completes Purchase Of Rural Cellular}}</ref> * Price Communications Wireless (Bay County FL, Southern GA including Macon and Albany, Southern AL including Dothan and Montgomery, and southern SC) purchase completed in August 2002<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.vzw.com/news/2002/08/pr2002-08-15a.html|title=Verizon Wireless Acquisition Of Price Communications Wireless Business In Southeast Finalized}}</ref> * Alabama Wireless, Inc. (Cellular One of Northern Alabama) Purchased January 2002{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}} * Contel Cellular/GTE Mobilnet (operated under the Cellular One name in most of [[Tennessee]], north-west [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], northern [[Alabama]], and north central [[Kentucky]]; dropped the Cellular One name and switched to the [[GTE]] Wireless name in the late 1990s) * Cell One Kansas City: Owned and operated by [[Airtouch]], morphed into Verizon at launch in 2000 * Cellular One of Northeast Pennsylvania [[Wayne County, Pennsylvania|Wayne]] and [[Pike County, Pennsylvania|Pike]] counties, [[Pennsylvania]] (South Canaan Cellular, owned by [[US Cellular]] until [[Verizon Wireless]] acquisition)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Sheldon |date=March 15, 2012 |title=Verizon Wireless Completes Purchase Of Cellular One Of Northeast Pennsylvania |url=http://news.verizonwireless.com/news/2012/03/pr2012-03-14v.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120520202056/http://news.verizonwireless.com/news/2012/03/pr2012-03-14v.html |archive-date=May 20, 2012}}</ref> '''Verizon properties Originally acquired by Alltel prior to the January 2009 merger''' * Cellular XL (Cellular One of Mississippi) Purchased December 2002 {{Citation needed|date=October 2018}} * HickoryTech Wireless<!--as of January 2014, renamed Enventis--> (Cellular One of Mankato) Purchased by Western Wireless Jan. 2004 * Western Wireless (Cellular One West - AZ, AR, CA, CO, IA, ID, KS, MN, MO, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, SD, TX, UT & WY) Purchased Jan. 2005 * Virginia Cellular (CellOne Virginia) Purchased 2005 * Cellular One of Amarillo Purchased April 2006 * Cellular One of [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]] (owned by the former [[James Garvey (Louisiana politician)|James Garvey]]'s Radiofone of [[Metairie, Louisiana|Metairie]], Louisiana, which SBC bought; divested by SBC to Alltel when SBC and BellSouth formed [[Cingular]] because BellSouth already had a cellular system in Baton Rouge)
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