Goodbye T-Mobile, Hello Nextel
Well, it's late, but I am making time to post. Dinner tonight was phenomenal. It's strange, but I devote so much of my life to work and complain about how much I work, but on the rare occasion that our office goes out to dinner, we sit at the table, eat foie gras and drink $300 bottles of wine (perks of working where I work), and trade stories like we are one big family. This is very fun. I must admit, for all of the complaining I do about the hours I keep, it's really nice to love the people you work with, and to do fun shit with them. More of this tomorrow at the company party, I suppose. I hope we play flip cup again.Anyway...my boss, who is one of those guys that knows about everything two years in advance of the rest of the US population because he is so well-connected and well-read, was telling us earlier tonight that Nextel, in a bid to squeeze more money out of cell phone users (as if they need to), is going to start offering a drunk-dial blocking service for outgoing calls. Meaning that for 25 cents per request, if I am a Nextel customer, I can request to block myself from dialing whatever number I give them, on a night from 8 pm until 3 am, or some specific time period.
Wow. That said, I can think of at least three numbers off of the top of my head that I would choose to block because I know how often my drunk little fingers dial them, and that doesn't even include the numbers that I drunk-dial and never remember calling until I check "Dialed Calls" the next day. Let me tell you, if I was a Nextel customer, they'd be making a f*cking fortune off of me every weekend. What a fantastic idea. I wish I'd thought of it myself.
Unless the rest of the competition catches up quickly, I am seriously considering dropping T-Mobile if this service is implemented.
And while I'm on the topic, enough already with the AT&T-Cingular merger. I see and hear ads every f*cking day. I can tell you right now that I used to have AT&T and it was awful, and that for reasons beyond service, Cingular did not "fit me best", so I wish they would shut up already.
posted by KA @ 11:50 PM
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46 million customers and counting, that is why.
I understand a lot of customers are at stake with this merger, but the whole merger is completely confusing to me both in marketing and logistics. I woke up this morning, checked my work email before coming in (bad habit), and saw a banner ad for the merger. Then, on my way to work, I passed an outdoor billboard advertising Cingular "Raising the Bar". So when they merge, what will it be - At&T, or Cingular? Confusing to your Average Joe.
Secondly, I think the merger is destined for the fate of the AOL/Time Warner merger in 2002, and that, as we all know, was a bust that no one has recovered from. When you merge a company that has arguably the worst history for tower placement and reception (AT&T), with one of the companies that has, inarguably the worst reputation for customer service, it's a recipe for disaster.
And the ads are annoying. 46 million customers or not.
Well, I hope ur next provider u can find a service where ur fon works every where, Like in bars. last post, did some research, was unable to find that At&t is the worse company in placing towers? Yea those commercials can be pretty confusing too. Yea bad marketing, those high paid people have no clue what they r doing. Frankly just a bad move all together, what where they thinking?
Look, I just said that seeing ads everywhere is annoying. And I gave my personal opinion about the providers. You can fact-check me all you want; I'm sure you're right. And if you are who you are, I won't argue with you, because you know better than I do. So concession made.
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