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Virgin Mobile USA’s “Fund My Phone” allows users to buy minutes to their Facebook friends

Categories: Virgin Mobile
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at 9:25 AM

Fund My Phone

As any savvy company, Virgin Mobile USA wants to take advantage of the growing popularity of Facebook. They already provide their customers with mobile access to the popular social networking website and now they’re introducing a new Facebook application.

With “Fund My Phone”, Virgin Mobile USA’s customers can get their Facebook friends to help pay for their wireless minutes. The application is an extension of the carrier’s Sugar Mama mobile marketing program, which allows customers (opt-in) to earn up to 75 minutes per month by viewing a variety of ad spots, responding to branded text messages, and/or answering a few questions.

The “Fund My Phone” application is fast to install and easy to use. Virgin Mobile USA customers can download the application and place it within their Facebook page. The application allows the customer to share up to five different spots with Facebook friends. As an extension of Sugar Mama, if the user’s friends will watch ads on their Facebook page those friends are earning the host Virgin Mobile USA airtime. Sugar Mama will showcase advertisers’ creativity offering these program partners “peer endorsed” exposure.

Use Virgin Mobile USA’s services? Simple add “Fund My Phone” application to your Facebook profile and hope that someone will pay for your minutes. Good luck! ;)

About The Author

Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

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