Google May Call On Ring-Back Phone Ads For Revenue

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Google May Call On Ring-Back Phone Ads For Revenue

Post by Reachable » Sun Mar 18, 2012 12:08 pm

Google has acquired a patent for ring-back phone advertising; meaning, a system whereby when you dial a call and are waiting as a captively attentive audience for someone to answer, the conventional ringing signal would be replaced by an advertisement. Google would engage phone service providers to participate in their system.

http://www.neowin.net/news/google-wants ... ll-someone

Hopefully this will be nipped in the bud by pre-emptive outrage.

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