So. If you’re a Pinoy aged 15-35 (or even not), I’m sure you’ve heard of üMobile. It’s a newly launched cellular service in the Philippines, world capital of text messaging. Everyone’s scrambling to get the service, but it’s still in the invite-only phase.

In the Philippines we already have 3 competing carriers, Smart (in the lead), Globe and Sun (current favorite of telebabad-ers). So why’s everyone so excited about üMobile? Well, it’s free. Or more appropriately, ad-funded.

Users have to agree to receive mobile ads, and in return for that, they get free load. Specifically, it’s P100 worth of load per month for the first 6 months. Viewing each ad will gain you P0.50, and one SMS is worth P1 (usually) so you can send one message for every two ads you view. You could also save up your credits and use them for calls. (Yugatech has a breakdown of ads versus credits.)

So how do you get an invite? Many ways.

1. If you know someone’s who already has the SIM, chances are they’re also giving away invite codes, so might wanna ask them for one.
2. Technobiography‘s trick was to email his full name to üMobile’s customer service and he got an invite code.
3. The third way is to go to the üMobile secret invite page, drop your full name and email address, then wait for the invite to show up in your email.
4. And the final way is to go straight to the üMobile web site and click on the limited offer of free invites. Hehehe. That just showed up recently, so when it’s gone you can go back to Option #3 (there’s still 300+ invites last I visited).

Once you get an invite code, plug it in the website and answer all their questions. They’re holding some kind of raffle so the more questions you answer, the higher your chances of winning.

That is, if you get approved. Yeah. Your application will still be processed, for how long I have no idea, since *my* application is still being processed and it’s already been two weeks now. That’s kinda the reason I held off writing about this for so long, I was hoping to give you more info about the actual usage and all. They do say that the application period is from June 1 to August 31, so I guess I still have seven more weeks of waiting if I’m super unlucky. Let’s hope not. Heh.

In any case, go try your luck and tell me how it goes. :-)

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