Wow… Can you hear me now Chad?

Finally! There has been speculation for years about the merger between Verizon and Alltel! I use to work for both companies, first Alltel (they stole my identity to make Chad, see below!) then Verizon. I really like both of them. I love the wireless industry, the phones, the constant change, etc.

I lost track of him over the years, but there was this guy I worked with at Alltel, Jay Ortman. He was a great guy. He was my area manager or whatever and his office wasn’t far from my store. He would come in and I’d plug him for the latest and greatest news and we’d have talks about the speculation. He said it wasn’t going to happen because of the cost per acquisition per subscriber. I saw some numbers and I think Verizon is paying upwards for $2100 per subscriber, which is steep. The article had said that the Sprint-Nextel disaster, I mean merger was in the ballpark of $2400 per subscriber.

All in all I think this is great. Verizon has made some big announcements like the acceptance of open source, LTE migration, and now the Alltel merger. I can’t wait to see how they handle this merger and especially the open source move!

Chad vs. Corey

My picture quality isn’t the greatest, but notice the similarities? Even more, he has the same personality that I do and I worked there before they ever launched “Chad”. Some genius in marketing must have met me and liked me that much