August 30th 2007 - - Innovative new way for Papua New Guineans to request and receive credit

Thursday, November 7, 2007 - Digicel, the fastest growing mobile operator in the South Pacific, today launched “CreditMe”, a revolutionary new way to top up your balance when you run out of credit. Using Digicel’s CreditMe dynamic handset-based method, prepaid and postpaid customers can automatically transfer credit to another Digicel prepaid mobile phone. The service allows Digicel customers to make a ‘Credit Me’ request to another Digicel customer and they can send any amount of credit, ranging from as low as K1 to as high as K100 per day with “CreditMe”.

“CreditMe” enables customers to conveniently and securely transfer phone credit to friends and family with a minimal transfer charge of 20 toea per transaction. It’s simple! All you have to do is text *127* followed by your friend’s mobile number * the amount of 20 * followed by #; and then press send. The person you are trying to contact receives a text messages asking them to credit you with K20. CreditMe is automatically set up for all prepaid customers. A CreditMe request can only be sent by Digicel prepaid customers and the minimum credit request for CreditMe is K1. Postpaid customers should call Customer Care on 123 to get this service activated.

Digicel Pacific Marketing Director, Niamh Byrne, said of the new service, “CreditMe is another first-to-market innovative Digicel service that offers our customers a convienient way to transfer credit. Now it doesn’t matter when you run out of credit as you can always request for more credit from your friends and family with CreditMe. We are committed to becoming the people’s choice of mobile operator through our world class network, superior customer care and wide range of innovative products and services”.

Since launching in Papua New Guinea on 20 July, Digicel has introduced a host of first to market, innovative services including a packaged handset with a SIM card including free credit, easy and direct activation of the Digicel prepaid service, a range of Digicel Postpaid packages, free 24/7 Customer Care number 123, “Talk for Free”” (30 minutes of free credit when purchasing any Flex Top Up card), “Happy Friday” (K10 and K5 free credit to thank our customers),“Call Me” service, “Happy Hour” (for 2 weeks between 1 PM and 3 PM all calls at off peak rates as well as the widest range of handsets.