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Oh la la !!! (by forestgum, Jul 19th, 2007) How come there is such a lovely tone! :))) |
Oh la la !!! (by forestgum, Jul 18th, 2007) How come there is such a lovely tone! :))) |
Niice (by nautin, Jul 10th, 2007) It is so nice! I love it! |
I don't like cat. (by kitty, Jul 9th, 2007) But i like this sound. |
Whoo (by billyoung, Jul 9th, 2007) It's so funny. Everything is broken. |
hahaha, cute cat and funny song (by CuteCat, Jul 1st, 2007) It's really a funny song. It makes me laughing louder... hahaha |
have yourself a meow meow kitty christmas (by leslie bordelon, Dec 12th, 2006) this sucked! |
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Some Ringtones Come With A Catch
If you've ever wondered why someone downloads ringtones for a cell phone, just
ask a teenager.
"Say if you had like a girlfriend or something, and she called, you could have
kind of like a love-song playing," Jake Mauney told Greenville television
station WYFF.
Mauney, 14, got a new cell phone for Christmas, and wanted to get a cool
ringtone for it.
He saw an ad for what seemed to be fairly inexpensive songs for his phone.
"Think (it was), like, $2.49, and I was willing to pay it," he said.
But Mauney's mom got a shock when the phone bill came.
It wasn't just a one-time charge, either. There were $18 items for January,
February and March. But Jake had only downloaded one song.
So Fran called the cell phone company.
"She said, 'Oh, you have got many, many, many ringtone charges. He's been
getting text messages, and every time he opens that text message, they're
charging him either $1.49, $2.99, $3.99'," she said.
It turned out that by downloading that one song, Jake signed up for three
ringtone services from M-Gube, Katazo and Jamster. All three would send
text-message updates, and when Jake opened them, he was charged for it.
"And I didn't know that clicking on it and opening it ... would cost me $2, $3,"
he said.
Services like Jamster do state in the fine print that by downloading their
ringtones, you are subscribing to their service, and you have to cancel to stop
any additional charges.
But because Jake used his cell phone to access Jamster, he never saw the fine
print. |