From uMobile to Red Mobile

jhay — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:55:47 +0000

Anyone else who got a phone call from uMobile reps? I did. Two phone calls actually, the first was yesterday afternoon and the second was just today shortly past lunch time. According to the agents who called, uMobile is gone and Red Mobile will replace it. Soon, between yesterday and November 24, my new Red Mobile SIM would be delivered to my home.

Yuga has more insider/expert info on this re-branding for uMobile, apparently, uMobile failed to achieve its key goals in order to survive like the 10,000 user base in a year. The hype was all good and all, but operational problems spelled out their doom. Like I blogged before, I rarely used my uMobile SIM ever since I got it last June.

I was excited back then because of the free credits that they’ll give out regularly in return for viewing their ads. Not bad, but because of inter-connection problems with Globe other networks, plus being amongst the very few other uMobile users in the country, it wasn’t worth it.

Oh well, hopefully this re-branding into Red Mobile will bring something new to the table. I say to them folks behind Red Mobile, the best of luck!

How’s my uMobile service?

jhay — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:19:23 +0000

I recently bought a Nokia 1200 as a spare phone and to use my other SIM cards from Smart and Globe. Oh and yes, my uMobile SIM card. Which I haven’t tried using with the Nokia 1200 because it would next to useless because I thought the MMS ads would not be delivered, I hardly know anyone who also has a uMobile SIM and the fear that the SIM card has already expired.

Speaking of the uMobile SIM card, I haven’t used it since it was delivered to me back in June 2008. Really had no use for it so it just sat there on my desk accumulating dust and nearly all but forgotten until today after reading this post from Yuga asking how the service has been so far for uMobile users.

Here are my answers to his guide questions, so to speak,

Are you actively using the number?

No.

How much free load are you getting and do you top it up yourself (via autoload or something)?

I got 100 so far. I haven’t used the SIM since June so I don’t know if the free monthly load has piled up or my account has expired.

Do you still have problems calling or sending SMS to other networks?

Yes, the last time I used it, none of the test SMS to my own Globe SIM ever arrived. I managed to connect a call but my I was inaudible using the uMobile SIM.

How much ads have you received so far and are you okay with these SMS ads?

None, even when I used the SIM with my K800i phone, which is the only MMS-capable phone I have.

How many people you know uses umobile too? How many people in your address book has the cell number prefix 0999?

Just 1. The number of my classmate whom I referred to signing up for a uMobile SIM and just last month, he told me that he hasn’t used his own uMobile SIM for a long time now.

Before Yuga blogged about this, I’ve been wondering what has happened to uMobile since their launch. Haven’t heard much from them since then, hopefully, things are not that bad for them.

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From uMobile to Red Mobile

How’s my uMobile service?