On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Stephan M. February <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However the telco's are publicly owned companies who can't just give > away product worth millions of dollars for free. The government is just > one more customer. Unless of course there is legislation requiring them > (the telcos) to provision free government usage in emergencies. Actually companies do some things for free; 'Community service' that in the end serve to polish their own images (not all companies have such a fishy underlying motives, but I'm sure some do). Another thing, if one of the telco starts the MMS campaign and the other two don't follow suit, that would be a bad image.
> We've come a long way since emergency broadcasts over radio and tv :) I think I wasn't old enough to recall those days s: Additionally, being non-Singaporean doesn't help. Though I do recall emergency broadcasts in Jakarta over May 98 riots. Chris _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
