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3 Pay Customers To Text and Talk

Mobille phone users are to be paid to receive calls and texts as part of mobile phone firm 3’s new service. Customers on the new pay-as-you-go price service will be able claim credit when friends contact them, which can then be put towards their own phone use. For example, when a customer receives a five-minute call, they earn enough credit to send two texts, or a picture message.

Graeme Oxby, 3’s Marketing Director, said: “It pays to be popular. Anyone who regularly receives calls and texts could end up much better off by moving to 3. You pick up, we pay up; it’s as simple as that. “The introduction of WePay means we’ve raised the bar on rewarding loyal pay as you go customers and at the same time created a way for everyone to enjoy music and TV on their mobile.”

According to research from Continental Research, 66 per cent of the UK market is on pay as you go tariffs, and the average person has 82 phone numbers stored in their handset. The WePay tariff is available from 3 from February 1st 2006.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .