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Dateline: 31 January 2000 Early Edition Read The Previous Edition A permanent link to this page can be found here
Editorial
However, thanks to all those who wrote with comments on the
Telecom-pager story.
It looks as if this piece of stupid marketing on Telecom's part annoyed a
lot more people than was first thought.
I also received an interesting email from a reader in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
who discovered that when he dialed an "in state" long distance number using
his local telco he got a voice message advertisement soliciting him to change
carriers.
Several other writers said the voice mailbox on their cellphones had been spammed
to promote another Telecom website -- and this was really aggravating because
you're charged on a per-minute basis to clear those calls!
What next?
Will Telecom simply start dumping advertising messages into all the cellular
secretary boxes on any month they're running a bit under budget? Think of the
revenues... they could charge advertisers for the privilege and then they'd
earn xx cents per minute from all those who are on those plans or pre-pay
phones where it costs up to 99 cents per minute to clear your box.
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