Vodafone to give $1,000 worth of airtime to 1,000 users

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#34654 27-May-2009 08:24

Just received this:

Vodafone says Thanks a Million

Thank you for your patience.

We’ll be giving Vodafone customers one million dollars of free airtime on Thursday to thank you for your patience while we solved network interference problems.

One thousand customers will be randomly selected from across New Zealand to receive $1,000 worth of airtime each. The $1,000 can be used for calls, TXT messages, data, music downloads and other Vodafone services.

In an open letter to New Zealand, Vodafone CEO Russell Stanners explains the gesture is in recognition of the support of our loyal customers.

“It’s our way of saying thanks for bearing with us while we resolved the recent interference issues,” he says.

The 1,000 customers will be contacted directly by Vodafone on Thursday 28th May. From 10am on Thursday customers can check www.vodafone.co.nz/thanks to see if they have been randomly selected.

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#218227 27-May-2009 09:21

Wow. I so hope I get that. That's enough to last me 4 years 2 months!

Interesting that it clashes with XT launch though isn't it?

Still a really cool marketing jesture. If I win $1,000 airtime, I'm not gonna be changing to XT

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#218228 27-May-2009 09:23

Might be enough to make me stay with them for a month longer or two :-)

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#218241 27-May-2009 09:53

Sweet, I can drive over the harbour bridge now without dropping calls

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#218328 27-May-2009 14:35

Is this for On Account and Prepay??

Hope it's just for OA as there are a ton more PrePay numbers out there, a lot of which arn't even being used.

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#218336 27-May-2009 14:58

It's for both. Read Russel's letter - http://www.vodafone.co.nz/thanks/

I'm sure they'll pick active Pre-paid users somehow. Not the ones that don't use their SIM.

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#218337 27-May-2009 15:00

I've been an OA customer for just over 7 years, i hope it's not completely random and they do pick custoemrs that have been with them for ages hehehe

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#218338 27-May-2009 15:01

I've been a prepaid customer for 6 years. Yeah, I'm sure it won't be completely random, otherwise they'll just be giving out money to random inactive users. There must be something to regulate it.

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#218339 27-May-2009 15:03

Yes but to be fair, Vodafone do love OA customers more than Prepay.

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#218341 27-May-2009 15:06

Haha, you are probably right. You guys do pay more after all, and are probably worth more to VF as customers

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#218346 27-May-2009 15:14

Are we all suitably distracted from the XT launch yet?

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#218347 27-May-2009 15:15

Nope, I'm still getting an XT phone (Unless I get $1,000 from VF tomorrow, then I have enough money to TXT my telecom friends without having a telecom phone

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#218349 27-May-2009 15:31

Or you could but a nice phone then move... Could be handy to buy out of your contract!

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#218366 27-May-2009 16:20

steveonz: Or you could buy a nice phone then move... Could be handy to buy out of your contract!

That would be EPIC

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#218472 27-May-2009 22:16

Let's keep it on topic guys n gals - no need to drag this thread into another anti-VF one. I have deleted a post above accordingly.

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#218507 27-May-2009 23:25

I wonder if you could auction your sim with $1000 credit on trademe :-) $1 Reserve hehe.

I think this windfall from Vodafone is the first drop in the bucket from two multibillion multinations battling it out for our attention and love.

I like the free things competition brings. 1 Day to go

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