My Photo

Ordering Information

Tomi on Twitter is @tomiahonen

  • Follow Tomi on Twitter as @tomiahonen
    Follow Tomi's Twitterfloods on all matters mobile, tech and media. Tomi has over 8,000 followers and was rated by Forbes as the most influential writer on mobile related topics

Book Tomi T Ahonen to Speak at Your Event

  • Contact Tomi T Ahonen for Speaking and Consulting Events
    Please write email to tomi (at) tomiahonen (dot) com and indicate "Speaking Event" or "Consulting Work" or "Expert Witness" or whatever type of work you would like to offer. Tomi works regularly on all continents

Tomi on Video including his TED Talk

  • Tomi on Video including his TED Talk
    See Tomi on video from several recent keynote presentations and interviews, including his TED Talk in Hong Kong about Augmented Reality as the 8th Mass Media

Categories

Categories

Subscribe


Subscribe to this blog's feed

Archives

Blog powered by Typepad

« Punctuated Equilibrium for the Johnston Press | Main | Now the Star Trek Tricorder? Mobile Phones as serious medical instruments »

May 19, 2008

Be careful with your ringtone, lesson from Japan

The weekend Financial Times (Date 17 May 2008) had an interesting story from Japan about insensitive user of ringtones. An employee by a Japanese debt-collection agency, Takefuji, had selected a song by a Japanese rock band ULFULS as the ringtone. That song has lyrics saying "Return the money you have borrowed." Then the debt-collection agency employee would have the phone with the ringing on, and accept calls at offices where they were attempting to collect on debts. In this way Takefuji was causing embarrassment to the companies who owed them money. The Japanese Financial Services Agency punished Takefuji for this practise. It does remind us that as technology advances, there will be always newer ways to also abuse the technologies. Still, fined for the wrong ringtone? Must be a first.

Posted by at 11:38 AM in Music |

Comments

Tim

That was a mischievous use of the ringtone for sure and in a country like Japan losing face counts for much more. It was naughtily inventive you have to say but it concerns me when customers are still using the music from the film "The Sting" when you are on hold. Makes me wonder if you are being "had"!!! :-)

Posted by: Tim | May 20, 2008 at 08:17 AM

Tomi Ahonen

Hi Tim

Good point! Yes, some thinking should be involved in the selections..

Tomi :-)

Posted by: Tomi Ahonen | May 22, 2008 at 12:24 PM

karen millen sale

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun" - Shakespeare

Posted by: karen millen sale | May 23, 2011 at 08:26 AM

ergo baby carrier sale

Good point! Yes, some thinking should be involved in the selections..

Posted by: ergo baby carrier sale | August 09, 2011 at 02:53 AM

ergo baby carrier sale

watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. The station will come soon enough.

Posted by: ergo baby carrier sale | August 09, 2011 at 07:52 AM

beats by dre

can read to sample the book. If you write to me at tomi (at) tomiahonen (dot) com, then I will send you the pdf file in return email.

Posted by: beats by dre | November 21, 2011 at 07:35 AM

cheap beatz by dre

Good point! Yes, some thinking should be involved in the selections..

Posted by: cheap beatz by dre | November 22, 2011 at 02:21 AM

cheap beatz by dre

Good point! Yes, some thinking should be involved in the selections..

Posted by: cheap beatz by dre | November 22, 2011 at 02:22 AM

The Magic of Making Up

Hi my loved one! I wish to say that this article is awesome, nice written and come with almost all important infos. I would like to look more posts like this .

Posted by: The Magic of Making Up | November 24, 2013 at 06:57 AM

The comments to this entry are closed.

Available for Consulting and Speakerships

  • Available for Consulting & Speaking
    Tomi Ahonen is a bestselling author whose twelve books on mobile have already been referenced in over 100 books by his peers. Rated the most influential expert in mobile by Forbes in December 2011, Tomi speaks regularly at conferences doing about 20 public speakerships annually. With over 250 public speaking engagements, Tomi been seen by a cumulative audience of over 100,000 people on all six inhabited continents. The former Nokia executive has run a consulting practise on digital convergence, interactive media, engagement marketing, high tech and next generation mobile. Tomi is currently based out of Helsinki but supports Fortune 500 sized companies across the globe. His reference client list includes Axiata, Bank of America, BBC, BNP Paribas, China Mobile, Emap, Ericsson, Google, Hewlett-Packard, HSBC, IBM, Intel, LG, MTS, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Ogilvy, Orange, RIM, Sanomamedia, Telenor, TeliaSonera, Three, Tigo, Vodafone, etc. To see his full bio and his books, visit www.tomiahonen.com Tomi Ahonen lectures at Oxford University's short courses on next generation mobile and digital convergence. Follow him on Twitter as @tomiahonen. Tomi also has a Facebook and Linked In page under his own name. He is available for consulting, speaking engagements and as expert witness, please write to tomi (at) tomiahonen (dot) com

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Tomi's eBooks on Mobile Pearls

  • Pearls Vol 1: Mobile Advertising
    Tomi's first eBook is 171 pages with 50 case studies of real cases of mobile advertising and marketing in 19 countries on four continents. See this link for the only place where you can order the eBook for download

Tomi Ahonen Almanac 2009

  • Tomi Ahonen Almanac 2009
    A comprehensive statistical review of the total mobile industry, in 171 pages, has 70 tables and charts, and fits on your smartphone to carry in your pocket every day.

Alan's Third Book: No Straight Lines

Tomi's Fave Twitterati