Who doesn’t like to get free talktime without paying a penny but just by watching some videos from Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mentos, Center Fresh, Fiat, Kellogg’s, Titan, Lenov sound interesting? MTS one of India’s best CDMA telecom operator with over 16 million wireless customers announced an innovative and next generation service called “MTS mAd” which offers customers to make free local calls by just watching a video ad. The launch of this service makes MTS the first telecom operator to offer this unique service on a pan India basis.
Leonid Musatov, Chief Marketing and Sales Officer, MTS India, said “Innovation is one of the core values of MTS India. The launch of mAd service is a testament of our deep rooted commitment to the same value. MTS mAd is a unique service which enables our Smartphone customers to make free calls by just watching a video ad on their device. The service also provides an opportunity to leading brands to connect with their customers in a personalised manner. I am confident that the mAd service would find its appeal amongst both our customers and the advertising fraternity”.
MTS mAd service is available on all Android devices on the MTS network including MTS MTag 3.1, MTS MTag 351, MTS MTag 352, MTS MTag 353, MTS MTag 401, MTS Pulse, Samsung Galaxy Y and Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos CDMA. The Company is also working to expand the ads service by also launching it on Blackberry and BREW enabled entry level MTS handsets.
How to activate MTS mAd Service –
- Customers using Android devices on MTS network just need to send an SMS with keyword “FREE” on MTS toll free number 55559 or just call up MTS Customer Care (toll free).
- Customers will get the MTS mAd Call application WAP link for download which need to be installed on the Smartphone (currently available on Android devices)
- After installation, Demo video will start playing automatically demonstrating the entire process and benefits of service.
- Now, whenever the Customer will make a call, an automatic pop up will ask the customer for a ‘Free Call’ or ‘Paid Call’.
- In case of Selecting free call, seamless video ad will play for 20-30 seconds, post that the call will be connected. After completion, free 60 seconds of local calling will be credited to the customer’s account and the same will be confirmed via SMS.
- The free credit would be paid by the advertisers.
- In case a user has already used the daily Free call limit then ‘Free call pop up’ will not be displayed.
MTS mAd service is free to activate, free to download the application and free data transfer while watching video ads. Customers will get a seamless experience with no buffering and video streaming hassle. Customers using this service will be able to make as many as 4 MTS mAd calls in a day. Customers who are interested in knowing more about this service can call MTS customer care executives.