Burlington, Vermont - August 4, 2008
Federal regulators have approved a rural cell phone merger, which means the long-awaited Apple iPhone is finally coming to the Green Mountains.
Verizon is merging with Unicel, but the state worried that would leave Vermonters without a choice of cell phone service. So Vermont is spinning off overlapping service areas to AT&T.
That means in a few months Vermonters will be able to buy the iPhone. Up until now, Vermont has been the only state in the country without direct access to the iPhone.
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