Audi Newsletter

[Jim Haseltine]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Per Lindgren" <lindgre at online.no>

> Just Taylor wrote:
>
> > Oh its a Germany thing :(  I'd rather have the Audi rings over
"Cingular"
> > any day!!!
>
> It's rather a European GSM thing. And on Nokias only, I cant have Audi
rings on my
> Ericsson :-( Because of Nokia's succes with this, they've reached #1 in
sales with
> a very large margine. There are 1000s upon 1000s of logos and ring tones,
picture
> messages etc. to download by sending a code to a server number. And the
operators
> collect mucho dineros from this, as well. In Norway only, with 4.5 million
citizens
> and 2 million cell phones, SMS services were wold for 300 million crownes
(about
> $40 million) just last year, and it is expected to be much larger this
year, and
> only keep on rising.

<rant>
And its getting to be a royal PITA. Today, one of my staff had his phone
ringing the 'Ride of the Valkuries', another had the Mission Impossible
theme and the final straw was when a visiting analyst left her phone
unattended and it proceeded to ring 'Waltzing Matilda'.
I issued a decree - for the rest of the week any unattended mobile which
rings will be placed in the lorry wash. If its got some d*mn stupid ring
tone its likely to visit the microwave on its way there.

</rant>

Jim Haseltine