- Fans travelling to the World Cup offered an alternative way of keeping in touch whilst in South Africa, for FREE -
London, UK: With UK-based watchdog, Consumer Focus, issuing a warning to football fans travelling to the 2010 World Cup regarding potentially huge bills for mobile phone usage, HulloMail™ (www.hullomail.com) is encouraging individuals to download its free smart voicemail app in advance, in order to access voicemails and send voice messages home, at no cost.
Users of HulloMail can give friends and family their personal HulloMail UK number allowing them to leave voice messages without calling them directly. Travelling fans can then listen to messages using the HulloMail mobile app whilst roaming in a free WiFi location and can quickly and easily reply using a ‘Hullo’, which is a short voice message. If friends and family are also HulloMail users they can send Hullos directly to each other’s devices.
The Consumer Focus watchdog found that rates for making calls from South Africa were as high as £1.70 per minute, whilst the worst culprit was for receiving calls, charging £1.50 per minute.
Andy Munarriz, founder and CEO, HulloMail said: “It would be a real own goal to return from the World Cup to find a hefty mobile phone bill waiting for you. It makes sense for fans to access our free HulloMail smart voicemail app. They can give contacts their unique HulloMail number so voice messages can be left for them, saving expensive roaming costs. Messages can then be retrieved simply via the app, online, or by email; it’s up to the fan which they prefer. Fans can also send a Hullo, short voice message, to their mates watching back home for free, using a free WiFi hotspot.”
Until recently free WiFi has not been the norm in South Africa, however, many shopping centres and leisure complexes in the host cities are providing free WiFi for the duration of the tournament: http://bit.ly/freewifiza.
For further information regarding HulloMail, visit www.hullomail.com. For further information regarding Consumer Focus’ research, visit http://bit.ly/91ujpg.
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* Your mobile operator may charge for sending a Hullo if you exceed your monthly data allowance or you are roaming.
About HulloMail™
Formed in 2008, HulloMail™, the voice-messaging innovator, offers consumers modern voicemail applications and instant voice messaging.
The HulloMail technology, used daily by over 35 million subscribers worldwide, has been developed with an emphasis on extensive product research and consumer-led innovation.
HulloMail’s services offer a quick and easy way to manage, send, receive and share voicemails and with the new Hullo feature, provide free, instant voice messaging to mobile and email.
Mobile Operators can accelerate modernisation of voicemail-based services while greatly reducing capital expenditure by utilising the HulloMail Cloud Application Managed Service Suite.
For more information, visit http://www.hullomail.com.
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Peppa Sheridan
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peppa@peptalkpr.co.uk – Peppa Sheridan 08-06-2010
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