Sports fans & cell phones

Post by **SonomaCat** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:46 am

I'm just throwing this out for curiosity purposes ... a sort of focus group thing.

As diehard sports fans, would you be tempted to switch cell phone plans from your current carrier to, say, an ESPN cell phone plan? It would be the exact same functionality in terms of placing and receiving calls, and the pricing would be about the same (it would all still be the major carrier on the back-end, you just wouldn't "see" them). ESPN would market the phones and the plans, and would probably have some customized content (scores, headlines, etc., and presumably more robust downloads of video in the future or for a premium?) that is sent to the phone in real time.

I think the recent telecom acts would make it so that you would have to have the option of switching your current phone number over to the new system, so it shouldn't cause any major hassles.

As sports fans and cell phone users, does this sound like a product that would interest you? I'm asking because I was just introduced to this new market of mobile phone service (it's going to be more and more prevelant in the future, it appears), and I'm curious about what other think about it.

Thanks in advance for any input.

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Post by **kmax** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:01 am

You're asking the guy who went out and bought a Sirius radio and 6-month subscription just so he could listen to the Cats play Ok. St.?

Sadly, with as tight as Verizon is about getting money for every fricken thing you do with your cell phone I am guessing they would never partake in this and Cell one seems to small to do it so I am guessing it will be a long time before Montanan's saw anything like this.