Busy start for new mobile phone firm

Monday 21st December 2009, 2:56PM GMT.

Jersey Post executive marketing manager Justin Thorne said that he was delighted by the public response. Picture: ROB CURRIE (00855979)

THE mobile phone company launched by Jersey Post got off to ‘a flying start’ on
its first day of trading on Saturday.

The company, named me:mo, opened its doors to the public at the main Post Office in Broad Street and on the first day more than 100 people joined the pay-as-you-go network.

The launch means there are now four mobile phone companies competing for business in Jersey. However, the new business is the first ‘virtual network’, as it uses the Airtel Vodafone network and does not have its own masts.

Jersey Post executive marketing manager Justin Thorne said: ‘The response from the public was tremendous. The number of customers who came onto the network was about double what we were expecting.’

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Magnolia Man

December 22, 2009 at 12:01 am

It’s nearly midnight. Not a single comment has been posted for or against Jersey Post’s mobile phone service.

What has happened to all those self-important people who so scathingly criticised this venture when it was announced only a few weeks ago?

Where are all those people who got so upset about redundancies in the island’s existing telecom businesses.

Your silence is echoing.

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Carl Marx

December 22, 2009 at 9:26 am

Or you could be the only one with time on there hands

****ECHO***

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C Le Verdic

December 22, 2009 at 9:40 am

Magnolia Man, they are too busy playing with their new me:mo phones!!

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reggio

December 22, 2009 at 9:54 am

I would hate to see you alone at Xmas Magnolia man so i will join you on the Forum and direct you please to my comments in the business section under ” fourth mobile phone firm “

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