This paper does a great job of explaining why you aren't allowed to use
bandwidth over sellphone services....
.....and has the answer to our problem, now being installed across the
planet, but not in America where sellphone carriers oppose it, a threat to
the money flow.
"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9B668D18E37ADnoonehomecom@74.209.131.13...
> http://www.wimaxforum.org/documents/...le_Broadband_M
> arch_2007.pdf
>
> This paper does a great job of explaining why you aren't allowed to use
> bandwidth over sellphone services....
>
> ....and has the answer to our problem, now being installed across the
> planet, but not in America where sellphone carriers oppose it, a threat to
> the money flow.
>
"K2NNJ" <ktwonnj@nospam.optonline.net> wrote in news:49331085$0$4887
$607ed4bc@cv.net:
> You must mean cell phone.
>
>
It was a cell phone when it used AMPS and there was no way to sell you
anything more than phone service. Now, every time you light up its
display, you are confronted with some kind of "service" besides making a
phone call for an extra fee, hence the new designation SELLphone.
Another name that comes to mind with iPhones, or any smartphone carriers
can program, is "Pocket Box Office"...click to buy software....click to
buy music....click to buy video clips...click to buy "something".
The same thing has happened to your internet service. Webpages used to
exist to disseminate INFORMATION of some topic you found important.
That is no longer true. Webpages now exist to display ADVERTISING
taylored specifically for you with embedded cookies or other implanted
data even more sinister. Internet service is now just another TV...a
"Billboard In Your Living Room". Even Usenet is slowly, but as sure as
the floating toolbag will re-enter the atmosphere, becoming yet another
advertising medium to destroy it....
Diamond Dave wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:11:43 -0500, The Ghost of General Lee
> <ghost@general.lee> wrote:
>
>> Just ignore him. He simply likes to complain.
>
> He's just waiting until IMTS and AMPS makes a comeback.
>
Nah, he is just unhappy about everything. I used to work with someone
like that who could find a black cloud on the brightest day.
> > You must mean cell phone.
> >
> >
>
> It was a cell phone when it used AMPS and there was no way to sell you
> anything more than phone service. Now, every time you light up its
> display, you are confronted with some kind of "service" besides making a
> phone call for an extra fee, hence the new designation SELLphone.
> Another name that comes to mind with iPhones, or any smartphone carriers
> can program, is "Pocket Box Office"...click to buy software....click to
> buy music....click to buy video clips...click to buy "something".
Why is that a bad thing?
All extra services, above and beyond simple voice calling are completely
100% optional. Why is the OPTION of sending an overpriced text, buying an
overpriced ringtone, or even renting a movie on my "SELLphone" a bad thing?
It's like the overpriced boutique in the local mall- if it's not your thing,
don't shop there, but that doesn't make those who like to idiots or fools.
> The same thing has happened to your internet service. Webpages used to
> exist to disseminate INFORMATION of some topic you found important.
> That is no longer true. Webpages now exist to display ADVERTISING
> taylored specifically for you with embedded cookies or other implanted
> data even more sinister. Internet service is now just another TV...a
> "Billboard In Your Living Room". Even Usenet is slowly, but as sure as
> the floating toolbag will re-enter the atmosphere, becoming yet another
> advertising medium to destroy it....
>
> They're Sellphones.
Again, so what? Are you not happier streaming your country music all
around HazardCounty or wherever on your $25 unlimited data plan than you
would be without it? You could drop it and save $300/year and go back to
your voice-only Alltel regional "Friends and Fellow Curmugeons" Plan or
whatever you have, but like most of us, you see some value in the ancillary
services being offered and you buy them because YOU think it provides some
value, just like the guy who thinks $0.20 is acceptable for the occasional
text, or the guy that thinks $2 to instantly download the song he didn't
know the name of but his phone just ID'd in the restaurant is an acceptable
alternative to trying to remember the name and searching for it on Amazon
later.
Larry wrote:
> "K2NNJ" <ktwonnj@nospam.optonline.net> wrote in news:49331085$0$4887
> $607ed4bc@cv.net:
>
>> You must mean cell phone.
>>
>>
>
> It was a cell phone when it used AMPS and there was no way to sell you
> anything more than phone service. Now, every time you light up its
> display, you are confronted with some kind of "service" besides making a
> phone call for an extra fee, hence the new designation SELLphone.
> Another name that comes to mind with iPhones, or any smartphone carriers
> can program, is "Pocket Box Office"...click to buy software....click to
> buy music....click to buy video clips...click to buy "something".
Businesses must love to see you coming if you get so upset by standard
practices used by pretty much every business. You walk into a pizzeria
and order a pizza and then they immediately try to "screw you (in your
way of thinking)" by giving you a choice of extra toppings at an
additional price. Or you go to purchase a car and they present you with
a list of options available at an additional price. Just like watching a
movie on your phone none of these extras are required to have a basic
pizza or functional car.
>
> The same thing has happened to your internet service. Webpages used to
> exist to disseminate INFORMATION of some topic you found important.
> That is no longer true. Webpages now exist to display ADVERTISING
> taylored specifically for you with embedded cookies or other implanted
> data even more sinister. Internet service is now just another TV...a
> "Billboard In Your Living Room". Even Usenet is slowly, but as sure as
> the floating toolbag will re-enter the atmosphere, becoming yet another
> advertising medium to destroy it....
>
> They're Sellphones.
>
Excellent explanation why things are....
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