There is fairly recent research that shows about one-fourth of all cell phone users would be willing to look at advertising on their mobile phones in return for free service. A Harris Interactive research poll in August also says that 7% of current mobile phone subscribers would be interested in receiving relevant promotional text messages with some caveats. The ads-for-free-service trade-off is consistent with what I have observed among samplings of the next generation. They have ways of ignoring advertising to keep things free. But it's the 7% of&hellip
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