Free Mobile Phone Calls from Virgin
 

Who would have thunk it? Free phone calls for watching advertisments and responding. Up to 75 minutes a month.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32043

ok...so how would it work? you watch and text? and you pay to send a msg? I'm not totally following this.

They spam and you say "yes, I see the spam" or something... i'm guessing replies to spam are free.

LOL.

I *THINK* you would have videos and commercials that would play from time-to-time when you try to make calls, and the viewing of those commercials and responding would get you credits towards your account.

They key is responding though, you can't just have the ad running in your pocket, I am pretty sure you have to respond in some manner to get credit, be on the phone web, or however.

the respond bit makes them able to charge MUCH more for the advertising.

Well it *could* work...but one would probably get annoyed very fast out of that.

And as this news been verified; I mean, the Enquirer isn't the most reliable news source there is ;).

I wonder if any other companies would be up for trying this. It might be rather interesting and any time you can save money is great.

has anyone tried this kind of thing yet or is it not in use yet?

Apparently it is a bit different than I thought. The service is going to launch this Wednesday and is called "SugarMamma". :) You watch ads on their website and then answer questions. For each answer you get right you get a free minute of airtime.

Seems like a lot of work for free airtime, but maybe for a struggling student it would be worthwhile.

"Hold on becky let me call you back after I watch some more commercials."

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/12/Te...The_Buzz.shtml

Well it could work, and I guess we won't know until the system launches... As for the name, "SugarMamma", well that's a little weird.

Ok I'll actually try this out, and if anyone else does on here maybe we can discuss what its all about :)

I don't have a virgin mobile phone. I might get one to try it out and see. It just seems like th work required to get one minute of phone service might be too much. If you have to spend 5 minutes to get one minute of phone service, you would be petter off paying 30 cents a minute for phone service.

Virgin
 

I'm on the Virgin network and this is the first I've heard about this. It looks interesting. I'll give it a try.

Re: Virgin
 

Please try out SugarMama for us Carpas. I am curious as to how much time it takes to earn a single minute of airtime. If it is doable in a short period of time, it might be worthwhile.

I am definately interested.