Reports of Chad's demise...
...are greatly exaggerated. Chad is back. When last seen, Chad was walking beside Test Man being welcomed to the team. Well...Alltel is still running commercials. Chad is here and so are the four guys from Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. The evil four are accused of locking customers into long term contracts. Chad offers the LG Touch FREE with a one year contract. The Touch for Alltel is the same as Verizon's Chocolate Touch (8575).
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I think Verizon put Chad in a big petri dish and had him reproduce asexually as part of their concession with the federal government to divest part of the Alltel company.
You gotta give Divested Alltel some kudos for having the brass to hand out phones for nothing with low contracts, all while maintaining the name of the once 20-mil customer company they were spawned from. Not only will it bring a few people into their now 2-mil customer base, but it will make their corporate profile just a little bit more enticing when they're sold off to other carriers for assimilation.
On a personal note, I think they should have changed to something like "Ahltel" to differentiate themselves from their genetic donor.
You gotta give Divested Alltel some kudos for having the brass to hand out phones for nothing with low contracts, all while maintaining the name of the once 20-mil customer company they were spawned from. Not only will it bring a few people into their now 2-mil customer base, but it will make their corporate profile just a little bit more enticing when they're sold off to other carriers for assimilation.
On a personal note, I think they should have changed to something like "Ahltel" to differentiate themselves from their genetic donor.
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