Virgin Mobile: Get Your Friends To Earn You Free Minutes

Virgin Mobile USA has come up with an innovative way for customers who signed up for its Sugar Mama ad program to earn free voice minutes on its network. Since launching in 2006, Sugar Mama has been providing free voice minutes to users who watch online commercials and answer a short survey, MocoNews reports.

Now, the folks wanting free minutes have a new alternative, a Virgin Mobile “Fund My Phone” Facebook application. Users who post the Fund My Phone app on their Facebook profiles can earn free minutes when their friends click on the app and watch and rate the streaming content. The more friends that view the content, the more free minutes the user earns, up to 75 per month.

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