<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080604/tc_nm/alltel_verizon_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080604/2008_06_04t144406_450x341_us_alltel_verizon.jpg?x= 130&y=98&q=85&sig=3E2uhJWHxHy_gGQBWfj_PQ--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Traffic passes Verizon Communications Inc. headquarters in New York, February 14, 2005. (Peter Morgan/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Verizon Wireless is in talks to buy
rural mobile service provider Alltel Corp for about $27 billion
in debt and cash to create a company that would overtake AT&T
Inc as the No. 1 U.S. mobile service, a source familiar
with the talks told Reuters on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Verizon in talks to buy Alltel for about $27 billion: source
(Reuters)