Margret Sloan

I read an interesting post on the w3 mobile section from Alice Pretchet about more ads coming to cell phones. She mentioned a very scary possibility of more ads that made me consider what it would be live to have more uninteruptable ads taking time out of my precious day. Generally the cell phone is something that I have come to rely one for fast immediate informaion. Wether it is an important phone call or a yahoo mobile map, I need that info as fast as possible. If my service started adding more ads to my cell phone experience I would definitely switch carriers and would expect that many consumers would also flock to a service for the no ads. Of course there are people who are willing to be interupted with ads for a cheaper service, hence the free411 services that are not giving you free directory information if you listen to an ad they get paid for first. I would expect my wireless carrier to allow me to terminate my contract early and take my number eleswhere should there be more interuptions in my end user expereince.

I also found some similar words of concern via Ashley Bowers’ blog.