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Comic Relief: Mobile Carriers, Media Firms Soon to Have Their Feelings Hurt
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 03:03:27 GMT
Alternate headline: 'Mobile Carriers Shoot Themselves, Subscribers in Head' I truly believe that the technology that mobile carriers are trying to hype, glorify, charge exhoribitant amounts of money for (out of sheer greed), and shove down the throats of their subscribers (read: customers) will backfire on them in a very entertaining fashion. Just my opinion -- I could be wrong, and often I am. ;-) Via Reuters. [snip] Cellphone and media companies expect to see a sizable market for advertising on cellphones in coming years, with options including advertising-subsidized video services, top executives said on Wednesday. Viacom Inc., which runs MTV and Comedy Central, is working with major operators, and plans to play a major role in the first trials of mobile ads in the next year. Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 U.S. mobile provider, is keen to offer subsidized wireless videos and local ads to cellphones. [snip] More wireless guru tech idiocy here: http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=11388289 - ferg ps. What they don't say, is that the 'sizaable market' that they see is from the marketers themselves, not from their customers, of course. ;-) -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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