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<blockquote data-quote="jdawg" data-source="post: 5313084" data-attributes="member: 568776"><a href="http://nerdnirvana.org/2005/08/07/mike-jones-screwed-by-sprint-w250000-phone-bill/" target="_blank">http://nerdnirvana.org/2005/08/07/mike-jones-screwed-by-sprint-w250000-phone-bill/</a>Mike Jones “Screwed” By Sprint w/$250,000 Phone Billsubmitted by Sang on 08.7.2005 in UncategorizedChopped and screwed rapper Mike Jones, who created a marketing campaign around his telephone number, has been hit with a whopping $250,000 phone bill from Sprint PCS. What started off as a clever promotional tool to help fans keep in touch with him has turned into a telephone nightmare for the Houston rapper. “A lot of people were booking fake Mike Jones shows, saying I was gonna be somewhere but I didn’t know nothing about it… So, I started putting my number on the mixtapes to kill all of that,” Mike Jones explained in a recent interview with a SOHH.com. After promoting his number on mixtapes, Mike took the concept further by promoting his phone number on his website and in his new video for “Still Tipping,” currently rotating heavily on BET and MTV. His phone number can be seen emblazed upon t-shirts throughout the video. According to Jones, he receives well “over 20,000 calls per day.” While it was a great promotional campaign to keep the rapper in touch with his fans, Mike Jones is now holding a cell phone bill for $251,693.34.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdawg, post: 5313084, member: 568776"] [URL="http://nerdnirvana.org/2005/08/07/mike-jones-screwed-by-sprint-w250000-phone-bill/"]http://nerdnirvana.org/2005/08/07/mike-jones-screwed-by-sprint-w250000-phone-bill/[/URL] Mike Jones “Screwed” By Sprint w/$250,000 Phone Bill submitted by Sang on 08.7.2005 in Uncategorized Chopped and screwed rapper Mike Jones, who created a marketing campaign around his telephone number, has been hit with a whopping $250,000 phone bill from Sprint PCS. What started off as a clever promotional tool to help fans keep in touch with him has turned into a telephone nightmare for the Houston rapper. “A lot of people were booking fake Mike Jones shows, saying I was gonna be somewhere but I didn’t know nothing about it… So, I started putting my number on the mixtapes to kill all of that,” Mike Jones explained in a recent interview with a SOHH.com. After promoting his number on mixtapes, Mike took the concept further by promoting his phone number on his website and in his new video for “Still Tipping,” currently rotating heavily on BET and MTV. His phone number can be seen emblazed upon t-shirts throughout the video. According to Jones, he receives well “over 20,000 calls per day.” While it was a great promotional campaign to keep the rapper in touch with his fans, Mike Jones is now holding a cell phone bill for $251,693.34. [/QUOTE]

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