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This excerpt taken from the VZ 8-K filed Jun 11, 2008.

Certain Relationships

An affiliate of Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. is serving as financial advisor to Verizon Wireless in connection with transactions referred to in Item 1.01 of this report.

The foregoing description of the Credit Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Credit Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 99.2 hereto, and is incorporated into this report by reference.

 

Item 8.01. Other Events.

Attached as exhibits are a press release dated June 5, 2008 issued by Verizon Wireless and Alltel announcing the execution of the Merger Agreement referred to in Item 1.01 of this report and selected slides from a presentation given to investors by Doreen Toben, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer on June 5, 2008.


NOTE: This report contains statements about expected future events and financial results that are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties. For those statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The following important factors could affect future results and could cause those results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements: materially adverse changes in economic and industry conditions and labor matters, including workforce levels and labor negotiations, and any resulting financial and/or operational impact, in the markets served by us or by companies in which we have substantial investments; material changes in available technology, including disruption of our suppliers’ provisioning of critical products or services; the impact of natural or man-made disasters or litigation and any resulting financial impact not covered by insurance; technology substitution; an adverse change in the ratings afforded our debt securities by nationally accredited ratings organizations; the final results of federal and state regulatory proceedings concerning our provision of retail and wholesale services and judicial review of those results; the effects of competition in our markets; the timing, scope and financial impacts of our deployment of fiber-to-the-premises broadband technology; the ability of Verizon Wireless to continue to obtain sufficient spectrum resources; changes in our accounting assumptions that regulatory agencies, including the SEC, may require or that result from changes in the accounting rules or their application, which could result in an impact on earnings; and the ability to complete acquisitions and dispositions.


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

   

Verizon Communications Inc.

    (Registrant)
Date: June 11, 2008    

/s/ Marianne Drost

    Marianne Drost
    Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel
    and Corporate Secretary


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