[LINK] Cheaper mobile plans with ads

[Adam Todd]

At 07:22 26/08/2008, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>Cheap mobile deal to serve up ads
>Asher Moses August 26, 2008 - 2:35PM
>
>http://www.theage.com.au/news/athome/cheap-mobile-deal-to-serve-up-
>ads/2008/08/26/1219516449331.html
>
>On a regular ComTel mobile plan without advertising, post-paid customers
>pay $29 a month for $130 worth of calls and messages.
>
>Under the new plans, if they are willing to accept five advertising
>messages a day the price is slashed to $10 a month.
>
>"The advertising will be a combination of SMS and MMS ads or email to your
>home internet address," ComTel COO Paul McFadden said.
>
>"When a customer applies we ask them a series of questions about areas of
>interest, and where we think mobile advertising will be really relevant is
>matching people's interests to the ads."
>
>McFadden said he did not believe the ads were intrusive or annoying. He

How invasive is that!

In a meeting and BANG SMS comes in.

Having Sex and BANG SMS comes in.

What about a 4 second ADD played to the user when they MAKE or Receive a call?

There was a telephone routing company that provided free phone calls 
as long as you didn't mind a 10 second ad interrupting your telephone 
call every 2 mins.

I suppose you can just delete the SMS and MMS messages, although I 
have had instances where I can't delete them, and worse, when you're 
phone is full, getting 10 Ad messages to get to the 11th important 
life changing message isn't going to be fun.


Anyway, if you pay $29 for '$130' in calls, doesn't that mean you are 
already discounted?  Isn't it time that calls become COSTED and not 
'discounted' because this pay for more is all a farce of the worst kind.

You aren't paying $29 for $130 in calls, you are paying $29 for X 
minutes or X SMS messages at a very very cheap price.