Monday, June 20, 2005

Filipinos clamour for scandalous mobile ringtone

Via Reuters.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo may be struggling with record-low popularity, but a simple two-word greeting attributed to her has shot to the top of the charts in the cellphone-mad country.

A Web site offering a mobile phone ringtone featuring the words "Hello Garci" briefly crashed late last week as thousands of Filipinos clamoured to download it.

Text message consumer rights group TXTpower said its site (www.txtpower.org) had been overwhelmed by demand for the clip taken from a recording at the center of allegations Arroyo tried to fix the result of last year's election.


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