to set the record straight . I do not endorsed the way she is being exposed to the world. However i empathise with her because it might have been her lifelong dream to become an entertainer but unfortunately along with the fame and fortune she has had to surrender some of her morals . it is like being caught between a rock and a hard place . yes we are all entitled to be critical of her, but the question should be what would we do if we were her.The answer might seem easy from the outside looking in. but being in the inside would be another answer for it is there where the belly of the beast lies, MONEY!
Miller all of the above mentioned in your comment are Limes potential customers and mostly the younger audience. because they are the ones would who use the phone the most. Haven.t you noticed that the ad is appealing to men and youth. Why do you think they choose a younger woman and not a seventy year old man or woman to market their product. Now go find your poo shovel and start digging BOO! luv you!
People do not be fooled. let me explain osmething to you. LIME may have very well upgraded parts of its network with elements of 4G nodes, but let there be no doubt that its a faux 4G. Let me explain further
In order to go from 2G to 4G requires massive wireless components upgrade, as we say int he industry, srious fork lift upgrades. I doubt very seriously if there was a complete upggrade to 4G.
The other real issue here is that even if they upgraded the complete network to 4G, again, I doubt this, consumers will never realize this.
Verizon has deployed 4G across their network. When you go into there stroes or even online you will see that there aare two types of phones, regular handsets and 4G handsets which are expensive. So, until LIME offers 4G handsets you will never realize the benefits of the network.
Expect to see either an increase in rates and service charges, or LIME dropping the cost of handsets to offload the backlog of older handsets before offering the 4G handsets.
As a furhter verification of these statements here use your existing phones to go online and see what internet speeds you are getting form your handsets and you will realize its the same old snail speeds.
Another clue. If you open any base station from any manufacturer, or any handset that are using 4G here is what you will be sure to find regardless of the brand. You will find chipsets and cards with RUNCOM inside. Runcom along with Dr. Hatim Zagloul collectively own all of the patents for the underlying technology in 4G (OFDM & W-OFDM). SOme of the wireless technologies using OFDM aare WiMAX, DVB (Digital video broadcast- in vehicle video similar to what you might see in some taxis in Europe, and the almighty LTE (Long Term Evolution)
If LIME really wanted to show the market something they should have gone to LTE.
DO NOT BELIEVE THE HYPE
RONALD REAGAN SAID, “TRUST, BUT VERIFY”
I SAY, “DON’T TRUST AND VERIFY”
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You can pose your questions to Dr. haatim Zaghloul on his site or at hatim.zaghloul@gmail.com
THe only 4G handset that I saw was the GalaxyII. Blackberry does not have any 4G handsets on the market yet.
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Correction to earlier post- Dr. Hatim Zaghloul.
@Tai chung
A Google turns up BBs 9900s which are 4G.
C. Malcolm Grant created a doc.
Nov. 19, 2011 Letter To Mr. Alex McDonald…
Dear Mr. Alex McDonald:
Re: LIME advertisement, with a lady in a yellow dress promoting the launch of your new 4G service.
I am writing you in your capacity of the Managing Director and Marketing Manager of LIME Barbados.
I find this advertisement utterly repugnant and blatantly disrespectful to ALL of our women, inclusive of our mothers, daughters, wives, sisters, step-daughters, grand-mothers, aunts, nieces, cousins and our god-mothers.
This advertisement lucidly shows how far LIME and its management are prepared to go in seeking the almighty dollar. I fail to believe that the specific placement of “4G IS HERE” in this advertisement is merely coincidental.
I am here by appealing to you in your current capacity with LIME BDS, to immediately withdraw this picture. Your failure to comply with this request by November 27, 2011, will leave me no choice but to actively solicit the support of like minded local, regional and international minds and organizations.
Thanking you in anticipation of your affirmative and expeditious compliance.
Sincerely,
C. Malcolm GrantFounder of SOHEECC: Members of SOHEE
Please email Alex McDonald and let him know how you feel – use all 3 email addresses…
“Alex 2 McDonald”
“Alex McDonald”
alexmcdonald@caribsurf.com
All jokes aside. LIME should pull this ad and replace it with one that depicts speed.
F1 car cornering at 4Gs while a message is sucked into the afterburners of an F16 jet.
Formula 1 cars or fighter jets “pull 4 Gs and more.
This ad was drawn to my attention when a male colleague with a broad smile,held up the newspaper on friday and blurted ” Digicel 4G or Lime 4G? I gine wid the hot leggy lime 4GV”
I want to know why a muscular, male, with the same pose, wearing a very short tight pants could not have been used to convey the message since the ad is targets young businessmen, who, statistics claim are more technologically inclined to purchase such an upgrade?
Why is it that women have to used to sell goods when men are just as attractive as women?
Lime, what message will or can that ad send to young women and young men in our society? Lime, I cry shame on you. For after raped by poor customer service and our hard earned cash monthly you have now sought to prostrate evidence of your continued criminality in the newspaper.
Doesn’t the young lady look happy? A big hulla-ba-lue was made about Dub fete posters for this very same thing!
Dub fetes have girls dressed like this and alcohol and girls go together. But what does 4g and a woman in a short dress skinning out have in common?
We should ask the model herself if she knew what the outcome would be of the photo shoot! Just to see if she was taken advantage of.
@ Tai Chung…
Absolutely correct!
Bajans aren’t realizing this yet! And a good thing too…I didn’t want to change my phone just yet!
LTE should’ve been down here a year ago! It’s just that the owners, who want more money, aren’t willing to shell out that kind of cash for upgrading the system. They’re not even rolling out HSDPA properly yet…and this is 3G, NOT 4G technology!
Straight.
Hspa+ ( what lime offering ) shouldn’t be consider 4g. Only the latest spec of LTE and 802.16m (wimax) are true 4g but they don’t exist yet for commercial operation. as too why they can get away with calling it 4g just think of 802.11n fiasco. we have devices as slow is 150 mbps claiming to be true 802.11n so too can a slower HSPA+ device claim to be 4g compliant.
Well I love it…it is very attractive…
A movie producer once said that the audience in a cinema are more bloody minded than the producers.In a script,for example, he only intends for the assailant to scare the victim,but many in the audience can be heard shouting “Kill him! kill him!” Its our minds which have taken the knickers of the partially hidden girl in the Lime advert. If she was dressed in a skimpy bikini, showing the very same frontage, we probably would not have given her a third(?) look.
Colonel that,s the idea. Subliminal advertising.it always work
Shouldn’t we be also complaining about the many young men walking about with the crack of their arse at the door like a sow pig on its way to the boarhog, and the many men who increasing are just whipping out and exposing their pipecocks alongside the street and pissing in full view of all passersby, -men women and children.
Unless this young woman in the ad says that she was exploited – we cannot say that she is innocent. Discussion will be based on our personal faith and how we believe our women should be treated and not what actually was in this woman’s contract with LIME.
Agree, she has the right to choose who she poses for and the cost. Likewise the agent has the right to design his ad as provocative as it cares to. How does the public say to LIME that its ad is indecent and distasteful? By continuing doing business with LIME or using another service?
We respect women, but do we get the message to LIME that they have disrespected our women and that there is a consequence for their insensitive behaviour?
Emerson, what is attractive 4G, the woman or where the 4G is placed in the ad design?
To david:
The young people are saying that Lime has not really introduced 4G; what it brought is only 3G. Is that true. This is important for when the entire world had gone digital, Lime still had us paying an arm and a leg for lower version of its phone system. Are they being dastardly again.
To David:
I just saw the expert on the 4G matter; it was earlier than I had read.
@lemuel
4G technology remains highly debatable.
But 4G is nothing new to Barbados.Wasn’t this what some women used to give to their men when they threw them out? 4G-Good Gracious God, Go!!!!!
David | November 23, 2011 at 6:16 PM |
Has LIME changed the ad?
See page 7 of Barbados today.
We are all criticising LIME for this ad but yet no-one has commetted on the parade of Banks semi-nude 36 models in the Sun on Sundsy.Well Well Well
@ The Scout | November 28, 2011 at 2:14 PM |
Scout, you old prude! (LOL!!)
For geysers our age this should be a collector’s item to help us through the inactive years. Memories don’t leave like people do! If a picture is worth a 1,000 words you could imagine what 36 can bring to the saying: “A thing of beauty, is a joy for ever which can bring a smile across the face of a curmudgeon sitting in a rocking chair. No b(ree)itches here at all! Just pure feminine pulchritude in their spring of life beyond the touch of autumn leaves of the old sharks unless swimming in dosh from lottery winnings or proceeds from nefarious activities or political kickbacks in the good ole days.
I see nothing wrong with the picture, all I’m saying is, we criticize Lime for their ad yet enjoy looking at Banks’
The Scout | November 28, 2011 at 3:56 PM |
Come on Ole Scout!
I clearly understand that. Just ribbing you a bit! Given what is happening around us we need a bit of lightheartedness regularly. At least twice a day!
You sound like a night person only (LOL!!).
What we are seeing right before our very eyes is the unravelling of the social transformation project started by C. D. O’Neal, Adams, Crawford et al and fast forwarded by the leaders EWB, Tom Adams and to some extent ES & OSA .
This dismantling of the socio-economic support structures would have serious ramifications for Bim’s proud independence.
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