Sporadic commentary on the telecoms and IT market in Latvia and the Baltic States.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Bizarro signs of the times
Now that the turbulence around Lattelecom Technology (ex-MicroLink) may be coming to an end, I must mention something bizarre I saw while being driven through downtown Riga (returning from something I covered for my newspaper). There was a Schinder (German for gatherer of excrement, suctions outhouses and septic tanks, Latvian šinderis) vehicle, an old Soviet-era tanker with a big hose for sticking down the shithouse (that is what they do). It had a Lattelecom Technology emblem on its door. At first, I thought WTF!!, but then I heard that some ex-MicroLink vehicles had their new emblems removed (some problem with colors or something). Apparently, someone had pasted a (discarded?) sticker on the door of this, let us say, less than high tech vehicle. Of course, if you suck lots of bad data into a storage facility, is there any difference (except for the smell, drove behind a leaking šinderis once, yuck)??
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May be that is some new, weird kind of advertising? I've heard of ideas putting Lauku Kefirs logos on a street workers' vehicles to illustrate the slogan Istiem Viriem!
Somehow, I don't think so :) :) :)
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