Although Verizon Wireless has announced its intention to purchase Rural Cellular in July 2007, the FCC permitted the deal only earlier this August.

Verizon Wireless has just declared the completion of its purchase of Rural Cellular Corporation for $2.66 billion in cash and arrears. The acquisition is expected to boost Verizon Wireless’ accredited coverage area by 4.7 million people, and will add licenses to embrace the potential market in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Alabama, Mississippi, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.

As of this date, 1.5M customers have been added to Verizon. Incidentally, data revenue has increased by 45%. Verizon claims this to be the highest figure in the U.S. market. As a result, a total of 68.7 million subscribers uphold Verizon to the 2^nd place in subscriber base ranking.

And for the record, Verizon Wireless laid down its report of total quarterly revenue of US$12.1 billion, an 11.8% gain versus Q2 2007, and said that data revenue is up 45.3% from the same quarter in the prior year, coming in at $2.6 billion. According to the network, 70 billion text messages and 1.4 billion picture and video messages where exchanged by its users for the whole quarter –that is roughly 780 million messages per day, or about 9,000 messages per second on average. For your information…

This is a surprise; Verizon has released the Motorola Adventure v750 a week earlier then previously mentioned. The cost for this cell is $99.99 on a contract and after rebates. This phone is unique for Verizon in that is will support the Rev. A-based push-to-talk feature. Buyers can expect a 3 megapixel camera, an external music control, microSD expansion, GPS and EV-DO Rev. A data. So this phone looks like it’s pretty loaded with features. This phone should greatly appeal to the PTT crowd.

Loyal aficionados of the brawny G’zOne phones have good reason to rejoice after word came out on the upcoming Verizon release of yet another G’zOne ruggedness. The upcoming successor of the G’zOne Type-S will be aptly called Boulder.

A quarter inch thinner than its predecessor at 2.02 inches by 3.94 inches by 0.91 inch, the Boulder features a 1.3-megapixel camera and Verizon’s next-generation Push To Talk service – the EV-DO REV. A, which resembles Sprint’s QChat technology. Of course, the Boulder still comes clad in the traditional G’zOne “everything-proof” shell.

With G’zOne phones, multiple color options are always expected. But in the case of the Boulder, color matters turn a notch wilder than before as it will be available in Black Silver and Orange.

Verizon announced today that VZ Navigator Version 4 is now available on select phones and can provide live traffic information in about 75 major cities across the U.S.The newest version of VZ Navigator allows customers in 75 cities from coast to coast to access information about traffic incidents on major roadways, obtain traffic updates and find detours around traffic congestion and accidents

To see a list of compatible phones and list of cities with traffic info see the press release. VZ Navigator 4 costs $10 per month or $3 daily.