WASHINGTON -- Verizon Wireless is offering to divest airwaves in 85 largely rural markets as part of talks with the Justice Department over a pending merger with Alltel Corp.
The separations would appease regulators' antitrust concerns over the proposed merger, which would create the largest U.S. ...

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