> RE: More on...."SPAM"...
 > BY: Shaun Ewing to Jonathan Roberts on Sat Dec 06 1997 05:16
 > pm
 > OTE: DCTEdit v0.01
 > > Why, is telemarketing that big a problem in Zone 1?
 > > Where I live (Australia), My house would probably receivea
 > > telemarketing/survey message probably about every 2 years :)
 >     Don't want to sound like an idiot here, but I'm just
 > ignorant about your
 > country..  How commercialized is Australia?
Well, Australia is fairly commercialised ie: Has branches for many big US 
corporations, even had an IBM manufacturing plant until IBM sold it to 
another computer company (Cant recall the name)
 > Also, are there big cities like they are in the US and other countries?
Oh definately, in Sydney (NSW Capital city), the buildings average around 45 
stories high (Commercial), with the tallest being AMP Tower, which is the 
among the top 40 highest buildings in the world, and is 96 stories high, 
equalling about 365 metres high (Not sure what it is in Feet, whatever.
Metres is the metric system used in Australia, but you should be able to get 
an idea).
 > What I am getting is
 > would it be
 > feasible/worthwhile for someone to do a telemarketing campaign
 > in your area?
Well, we have lots of Door  Door sales people which really give me the 
S$%^s, but I'm not sure about Telemarketing.
We do have 2 shopping TV channels on Cable in Australia, plus Nine Network 
has about 4 hours of news kinda programs with about 1 hour of shopping, and 
early morning TV shopping on ALL public tv networks (5 available).
So in Australia we are swamped with TV related advertising, but not really 
Telemarketing.
Cya,
 Shaun Ewing
ImmortalNet Admin - shaunewing@usa.net
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