About a year ago Verizon announced that the company was planning an acquisition of a small wireless network called Rural Cellular Corp. The acquisition didn’t get a lot of media attention due to the fact that the news about Verizon at the time of the announcement centered around the now-complete Fairpoint sale. However, a group of Vermont legislators took notice of the RCC acquisition and opposed it because of fears that it would create a cell phone monopoly in the state. The deal had been held up this whole time pending debates about the issue but the FCC has now approved the deal. The FCC did find, however, that there were six markets where the deal could do competitive harm and has therefore required that RCC assets from those markets be placed in a management trust. The deal adds only about 625,000 customers to Verizon’s network but opens up the market for their coverage area by 4.7 million people.