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pkang0202
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 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:26 am Post subject: Drug Dealers Rejoice (title of article) |
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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/asda-supermarke.html
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UK supermarket chain Asda has started selling cellphones for a fiver ($10). The handsets are pay-as-you-go and available on the Virgin, T-Mobile and Orange networks, with tariffs starting at 12p (24�) per minute. Available models include the decidedly low-tech Nokia 1112 and the Sagem my220x.
The Sagem has actually been on sale as a pre-pay phone in the UK for a while: Last year it retailed for �15, but the Wal Mart subsidiary's �5 pricepoint takes these handsets firmly into disposable territory: Speaking to the Daily Mail, an Asda spokesman said that
You can just grab one off the shelf, use it once and throw it away if you wanted [...] It's great for people whose regular mobile phone is perhaps broken or they want a back up, or those who have come to this country for just a few weeks.
Of course, the spokesman forgot to mention the true market for these burners: Drug dealers. The irony doesn't escape me: In my freshman year, I was followed and harassed by a drug dealer in Nottingham's branch of Asda. |
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ds_fan
Joined: 07 Apr 2008
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| dont quite follow this, granted asda are an unethical company, but who wouldnt bag a mobile phone for a fiver- whats some bloke being followed by a drug dealer in asda several years ago got to do with this? |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject: Re: Drug Dealers Rejoice (title of article) |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/asda-supermarke.html
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UK supermarket chain Asda has started selling cellphones for a fiver ($10). The handsets are pay-as-you-go and available on the Virgin, T-Mobile and Orange networks, with tariffs starting at 12p (24�) per minute. Available models include the decidedly low-tech Nokia 1112 and the Sagem my220x.
The Sagem has actually been on sale as a pre-pay phone in the UK for a while: Last year it retailed for �15, but the Wal Mart subsidiary's �5 pricepoint takes these handsets firmly into disposable territory: Speaking to the Daily Mail, an Asda spokesman said that
You can just grab one off the shelf, use it once and throw it away if you wanted [...] It's great for people whose regular mobile phone is perhaps broken or they want a back up, or those who have come to this country for just a few weeks.
Of course, the spokesman forgot to mention the true market for these burners: Drug dealers. The irony doesn't escape me: In my freshman year, I was followed and harassed by a drug dealer in Nottingham's branch of Asda. |
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When I went back in Jan for a holiday sim cards at tescos were 2quid or 3 quid. phones were around a tenner for the cheapest tesco phone. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| I remember that from 'the wire' a few seasons ago. That show really had its ear to the street, so to speak. |
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