Comments on: Text messages on your phone: A new medium for making money

By: Anand

Anand — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:55:38 +0000

INR 2.00 = 5 cents
5 cents just to receive 10 text ads is not bad at all in a country where millions of people toil hard to earn less than one dollar a day.

By: nakul

nakul — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:40:05 +0000

well, your information does seem acurate and I think by using this concept they are luring in subsribers to get paid a very,very,very nominal fee as compared to the charges they are charging advertisers to send text messages to the subscribers.
It is actually sad to know of how Indians get duped of small figures and do not realising that they themselves are inviting trouble – spammers! who can officially spam them now as, they have themselves signed up for the “service”.

By: Anuj Seth

Anuj Seth — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:33:41 +0000

Thanks for the comment. I’ve posted this on the mGinger blog and have requested them to respond. Lets wait and watch.

By: mobilespy9

mobilespy9 — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:16:24 +0000

mGinger has simply copied the idea straight from what had happened way back in 2002 in Australia AND what a company called MindMatics (via redalertz.co.uk)is doing in the UK currently. It is disgusting for these guys to claim this in the press as their original idea!! It is disgusting how they have even lifted the â€œTerms and conditionsâ€ from their website and the â€œprivacy policyâ€ too!! the least they could have done is to atleast bothered to change that a little bit!! The Mginger design – down to the background image is a copy of frinedster!! Not just that – the Darned copy on the Advertise with us page is also the same!! Shame on you guys!! Mr. CEO – your COO has conned you by claiming this as his own idea â€¦and you have gone to press with it stating this and boasting about this!!! Ha Ha Ha Ha !! Good luck to you!