Saved By A Telemarketer
from the who-wants-an-unlisted-number-now? dept
Reuters has an odd story about a guy who was hiking in the Andes and got stranded. He tried to call for help on his mobile phone, but discovered he was out of minutes. After surviving for about 24 hours, his phone suddenly rang and it was a telemarketer offering him more prepaid minutes. That telemarketer then called for help and kept calling the guy back to make sure he was staying awake. It's a nice story, but it does make me wonder about a few things. Shouldn't any such mobile phone automatically be able to call the phone company to sign up for more minutes once you run out? I can't believe any phone company wouldn't have that ability in the phone. I also wonder about his "recharging" of the batteries by throwing them into the snow. Anyone know anything about that? Finally (yes, this is a joke), if the phone company was really smart they would have upped the price on the minutes they tried to sell the guy once they realized how desperately he needed them. I sense a new business model...
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Does this help? :)
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abt batteries, it works, used to put them in the fridge all the time when I was a kid to get 5 more minute of charge
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