June 24, 2005
Filipinos Go Mobile On President
Forget Eric Clapton's "Layla." In the Philippines, the hottest ring tone for cellular phones features what may be the voice of the Philippine's most powerful politician, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
The ring tone is a remix of a recorded telephone conversation purporting to show that Arroyo and an independent poll commissioner conspired to cheat in the 2004 election.
Despite a government warning that possession and dissemination of the audio clip is illegal under the country's anti-wiretapping law, the ring tone immediately became a hit in the Philippines, where more than 30 million cell phone users send roughly 200 million text messages daily.
A website operator of www.TXTPower.org has also launched a cyber-campaign against President, posting jokes this week that can be downloaded as text messages.
Links:
Website Operator Plans More Cyber Protests Against Arroyo
Philippin es: Cell Phone Ring Tone Taking Aim At Country's President
Ring Tone: www.TXTPower.or g
Posted by Buzz Webster at June 24, 2005 03:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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