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Sprint Now Offering Vanity Phone Numbers Aliases With **Me Service
MojoKid writes "Sprint has announced a new vanity phone number alias service called **Me. In a nutshell, **Me lets you create a custom name that people can use to call you if they don't have your actual number programmed into their phone. For example, if your name is Jerry, you can use **Jerry as your handle. Or perhaps if your nickname is "Mad Dog", you can opt for **MadDog. Monikers must be at least 5 characters in length but no more than 9, not counting the two stars. The service costs $2.99 per month, but there are no additional usage charges beyond your normal Sprint plan. Currently, **Me will only accept calls from Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and other Sprint customers, and doesn't accept text messages yet."
I have Verizon (the service which during a recent trip to Travis Air Force Base really sucked big time), I think Iâ(TM)ll ask for âoeFuckMeRawâ.
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>> Some new phone service called **Me
Anyone else read that as "F*** Me"? Better question - did anyone NOT see that?
I can safely say they will fuck this up and by the way it's sure evidence that Sprint is on the ropes and dying a horrible and inevitable death. I can't WAIT to hear about the thousands of requests they 'lost' or flat out denied or better yet, changed to something else w.o. your knowledge.
Here's my suggestion
F-U-C-K-S-P-R-I-N-T (382) 577-7468
Is it innovation to create a half-assed version of centralized single-provider DNS for phones?
Why do we not have phones in DNS yet?
I think Sprint missed a real opportunity using "star" instead of "pound".
##Mom
*slight crashing sound*
Let me pay for the oppretunity to be easily reached by any and all marketing companies with scketchy products and willingness to violate the do not call list? Where do I sign up? Can I have two for three times the price? Is sprint really charging enough money for this? Can they possibly sell these lists to such marketing companies that will promise to offer me worthless crap with a robotic message recorded by a non native english speaker, to make up for the low, low price for such awesomeness?
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
I suppose people can use their twitter handle. But $36/yr for essentially nothing? The moron isn't the one who thought it up, the moron is the twit who buys it.
We need a system like DNS which will automatically convert an easier-to-remember text string to your phone number...
That's a great idea! Perhaps there could be groups of 3 letters associated with each number so you could have a easy mnemonic for at least the first couple of digits, perhaps representing the local exchange, like:
MUrray Hill 5-9975 --- would be for 685-9975
-or-
BALdwin 6828 --- would be for 225-6828
That way you wouldn't have to remember so many numbers...
H-T-T-P colon slash slash slash dot dot org
Or apple shows up with trademark paperwork that was meant for MobileMe and shows their ownership of anything related to **Me