Forget Baseball. Made for cell - Soap Opera on your Sprint..

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.sprintpcs (More info?)

<http://www.detnews.com/2004/technology/0405/31/technology-167593.htm>


For $3.95 / month a new soap opera designed to be sent to cellular users
is available.


"Torrid dialogue on your cell phone? Now you can pay extra for it.
Sprint Corp. this month began beaming a soap opera produced for mobile
phones to customers who have its PCS Vision service, an extra $3.95 a
month and a high tolerance for florid soliloquies.
³The Spot,² which had a short run on the on the Web nine years ago,
³follows five 20-somethings, all living together in a Santa Monica,
Calif., house,² according to a company release. Daily episodes of the
show, a fictionalized knockoff of MTV¹s ³Real World,² feature audio
snippets from the characters along with still pictures that refresh
every 10 seconds. "