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From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB)
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Subject: Pepsi Call-in Contest Cancelled
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Date: 28 Jan 91 14:04:10 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 77, Message 2 of 16


Yesterday, during Super Bowl coverage, I heard that Pepsi had planned
a telephone call-in contest, but that it decided to cancel it out of
concern over the phone network.  This (as I have read since in a news-
paper) was done after consultation with the FCC.  I don't know much
else about this.