RE: UKNM: Paying via the phone bill...

[Leslie Bunder]

I'm off to Finland!<g>


Leslie

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> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Sean Phelan [SMTP:seanmultimap [dot] com]

> Sent:	12 February 1999 18:56

>

To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Subject:	UKNM: Paying via the phone bill...

> 

> At 4:16 pm +0000 12/2/99, Leslie Bunder wrote:

> 

> >Mmmm.  I quite like the idea of paying for things via the phonebill.

> 

> In Finland, you can pay for a number of travel-related things via your

> GSM bill.   There are soft drinks machines, car washes, parking places

> etc. that have a phone number on them rather than a slot for coins.

> 

> For the drinks machine, for example, you call the number on the

> machine

> from your GSM, a can pops out and your phone bill is charged for it.

> 

> A couple of environmental factors come in to play:

> 

> - everybody (and that is Everybody) has a GSM phone; and

> 

> - it is usually FAR too cold to be digging around for loose change.

> 

> Bon weekend, tout le monde....

> Sean

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