One of my colleagues working at Vodafone D2 has this
service turned on, and it quite startled me at first,
the 'did I dial a wrong number' reaction you
described. The interesting thing is that VF D2s
implemantion has this tone for ALL callers to a users
number, not only those on the same network. As to
musical tastes, this particular colleague's choice of
tone quite surprised me, something by Brittney Spears,
I think. He is a fifty-something, quite staid German
guy, and I didn't expect it. That also made me think
maybe I had the wrong number. Also a rather
interesting window to his personality, much in the
same way that ring tones are.
> However, without additional communication, people
> remain largely unaware
> of the service
> and those having knowledge of it remain reluctant
> because of the "what
> is this music ? did I
> dial a wrong number ?" problem.
> >We have these ringback services in the Philippines
> as well - for some
> >users on the other end of the call this can be
> annoying as hell (i.e.
> >getting William Hung singing offkey instead of a
> busy signal).
> >
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Nik Frengle
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Received on Sat May 29 18:45:10 2004