Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: lmg@hoqax.att.com (Lawrence M Geary) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Busy Signals: Are 900 Numbers a Waste of Money? Message-ID: Date: 24 Aug 89 14:21:36 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: lmg@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (lawrence.m.geary,ho,) Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 323, message 10 of 11 In article telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: >MTV first used 900 service during Bruce Springsteen weekend in 1987, and >they received 886,000 calls in two days. Flushed with that kind of success, >MTV ran a contest in March, 1989 to give away Bon Jovi's childhood home >in Sayerville, NY. Within *15 minutes*, 300,000 calls had been received. ^^ I wonder how many calls they would have received if the callers had been told the truth: Sayreville is in New Jersey. I know. I live there. --Larry -- lmg@hoqax.att.com Think globally ... Post locally att!hoqax!lmg