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Article: Buying Wireless: Easy As Candy?(vending machines)(Company Business and Marketing)
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- Wireless Week
- Article date:
- January 24, 2000
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Reseller Wants Vending Machines On Every Street Corner
It has been said, in the lore of football, that all a star running back needs to churn out yardage is "12 inches of daylight."
In a rough, wireless analogy, Merritt Jesson seeks people with "10 to 15 minutes of stand-around time."
Jesson is chairman and CEO of SATX Inc., a Tampa, Fla.-based company whose DebitFone subsidiary is striving to induce potential wireless customers with a little idle time to purchase phones and service from vending machines.
If successful, his venture might reflect how wireless has seeped into society. Should it stumble, perhaps consumers have too many ...