
After a telephone-tapping scandal and the dodgy suicide of its technical mananager dragged VODAFONE's name through the Greek mud earlier this year, TIM - the "3rd" mobile phone Cartel member in Greece is now going public in a BIG way. TIM is seeking maximum exposure with its new shop in Ermou St. Marousi, where a 4 metre name sign (probably re-cycled from a motorway rest-stop) now adorns the facade of what used to be the pretty little Café Greco. The neo-classical building, which is one of only 5 such buildings remaining in Ermou St., is now smothered in 1 - 2, yes 3 TIM signs. So surely the citizens of Marousi will never accuse TIM of acting covertly!
But where does the the Municipal Planning Office stand when it comes to shop sign standards? One suspects that despite this huge manifestation of corporate self-promotion, the Municipality fails to see that TIM is despoiling the small-town charm of this pedestrian street.
Do we have any rules and regulations to govern the size and positioning of shop signs? I dunno. But there should be. This kind of "mega-makeover" has no place in a human-scale street.
And what a dilemma for the mobile phone user (me)! After recently cancelling my VODAFONE subscription, due to their 'possibly-nefarious' dealings, I am now faced with the choice of cancelling my new TIM subscription, as my only significant means of protest... But that means I would have to go to COSMOTE!
Oh dear!
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What no comments?!
Then I must be seeing things!
- Ivor
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