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    Would you listen to a 5 second commercial for free phone service?

    OK, here's the scenario. Google offers free VOIP phone service (including a telephone number and 911), but plays a short (5 second) commercial each time you make a phone call. Would you go for that? All local and long distance would be free under this scenario.

    Currently, Vonage charges $30 + taxes + international minutes for such a service.
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    Yes, 5 seconds each phone call is nothing, especially if I call internationally
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    No, there are too many commercials in my life already
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    Maybe, depending on how annoying the commercials were.
    13.16%
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    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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  • #2
    a) hell yeah.
    b) How about something else: a videophone, with a commercial below?
    urgh.NSFW

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    • #3
      Regarding (b), I don't see why there would be a limit to what you could do, so long as the commercial would be very short and unobtrusive, like Google's current ads.
      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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      • #4
        No.

        [edit], other way around, cable was charge with no commercials I think. anyway down with commercials, because while some are good, most are crap.

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        • #5
          Not that I recall. But I understand your implied argument that it would be free at first, but not later, after they have signed everybody up.
          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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          • #6
            Thank god for regulation: our cable and sat are still commercial free ( except the foreign channels, and the regular channels )
            urgh.NSFW

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            • #7
              My thinking is this... Currently, Google brings in about $10 per year per customer. While that doesn't sound like very much money, you can do a lot of things with that. Gmail probably costs only about a dollar a year for Google to provide.

              Google would have to pay taxes on the telephone service and pay for the telephone numbers. I'm not sure such a thing would make sense, but it intrigues me.
              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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              • #8
                I would rather pour molten lava in my ear!

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                • #9
                  No. I hate telephones

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                  • #10
                    Yes, but they better waive the commerical on calls to 911.
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                    • #11


                      Hadn't thought of that.
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #12
                        They have short commercials on the Sam's Club long distance cards. It's just a short "thank you for shopping at Sam's club!" That's what got me thinking about this.
                        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                        • #13
                          No. But my brother does
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                          • #14
                            banana option?
                            To us, it is the BEAST.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by DanS


                              Hadn't thought of that.
                              It's possible to override this by a special button that dials only 911 ( or other emergency service )
                              urgh.NSFW

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