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Is 15 seconds here and there that big a deal? Well, Verizon has 70 million customers. If each customer leaves one message and checks voicemail once a day, Verizon rakes in — are you sitting down? — $850 million a year. That’s right: $850 million, just from making us sit through those 15-second airtime-eating instructions.
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State of the Art - Cellphone Gripes Worthy of Congress’s Time - NYTimes.com
In case you weren’t feeling enough vitriol this morning (oh, was that just me?), a tidy little rant from David Pogue, chock full of reasons to storm your cell phone carrier’s office with torches and lighter fluid.
