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Alltel's quirky brand characters--Chad and the sales guys from T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel, AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless--are still hard at work. The wireless carrier, which Verizon agreed to ...

KENTWOOD -- Say goodbye to Chad. The ubiquitous character created for Alltel's ad campaign is going away along with the Alltel brand as part of its purchase by Verizon. On Wednesday, the Alltel store ...

If you don’t know who the “sales guys” are by now, you must be living on another planet. The sales guys are characters created by wireless carrier Alltel to represent competitors Cingular/AT&T, ...

If you're a fan of the Alltel commercials starring Chad, you've probably noticed that Mentor native Michael Busch has been replaced by another actor. What gives? Alltel wanted the actors to sign a ...

Alltel commercial icon Chad, whose real name is Chad Brokaw, visited the Enterprise Alltel store last week to sign autographs for fans such as Will Brock, a fourth-grader at Hillcrest Elementary ...