Well isn’t Vodafone the friendly mobile phone operator at the moment? Not content with slashing mobile roaming rates (forget the fact that they’re unfair and should never have been so exorbitantly high in the first place) and offering up Twitter love to its customers, it’s now announced a week of free Facebook access for its users.
Yes, from Friday 24th July, for one week only, those with funky cell phones capable of viewing the web (the Nokia N97 for example) will be able to surf the social network for nothing.
Presumably, the hope is that you get so hooked that, when it stops being free, you’ll carry on and pay Voda’s data rates for the privilege.
At least the company is offering free SMS text alerts, similar to the Twitter deal, notifying users when they’ve got new Facebook updates.
It’s all doable from Vodafone.com/facebook
If you’re going to get hooked, of course, the far better option is to grab a (nearly) all-you-can-eat data package.
Originally posted on July 22, 2009 @ 7:20 am