Codetel public announcment

If you�ve got a Codetel/Claro cellphone, you probably received the following text message last week:
�Para prevenir influenza: Lava tus manos con jabon, y tapa tu boca con panuelo al toser o estornudar. Mensaje de sespas, Indotel y Codetel.�
Which basically means, �to prevent flu, wash your hands with soap and cover your mouth with a scarf when coughing or sneezing.�

Good advice Codetel! Thanks for thinking of us � your loyal customers.
Now I know how to avoid Swine Flu - I�ve spent the last couple of weeks telling everyone to keep away from pigs!

I can just imagine all the teenagers receiving the text message and then eargerly forwarding it on to their best friends, sort of like �viral marketing�. But somehow, I think everybody will pay about as much regard to this message as �

It might help of more homes and public places had clean running water. I�ve lost count of the number of bars & restaurants where the toilet doesn�t flush and the taps have no water. And then of course when the power is off, water pumps don�t work.

Maybe Codetel should have sent a text message to the bosses of Edenorte & the Water Authority. �To prevent flu, please can you supply 24 hour electricity and running water to the population.�

And lets not talk about the incompetency of Codetel: ADSL lines that operate at a quarter of the speed they should, cellphones service that goes off for hours at a time, fixed line installations that take months to happen, and staff that know nothing about the products and services they are selling.
Codetel/Claro and Indotel, please spend some effort on getting your own house in order � then I�ll go and wash my hands.

Incidently, did they not consider that cellphone and telephone keypads are one of the biggest germ infested objects on the planet?

But a bit too close to home, eh, Codetel?

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