Answered Prayers for TXT Rush Winners

25 February, 2010

A Suva nurse who got a Vodafone Tertiary SIM when she was in nursing school in 2008 and used the free SMS that come with her SIM Card to try and get her missionary husband home from Papua New Guinea, ended up winning a Nokia 3120 3G phone and $1, 500 in Vodafone’s TXT Rush promotion today (24/02/10).

Merewalesi Salu, whose husband Jo was amongst a group recently released by Papua New Guinean officials, said the free SMS’s that came with the Tertiary SIM from Vodafone enabled her to keep in touch with him while he was in Port Moresby. Her 3.5 Vodastar rating earned her the cash prize. Husband, Jo is no stranger to winning with Vodafone, having himself won a 3G phone during a promotion in conjunction with MaiMix FM.

Meanwhile, Uma Devi a mother of three from Nausori was overjoyed when she was presented with a Nokia N95 handset and then could not believe her ears when she was told she’d also won $1000 for having a 2 Star Vodastar rating.

She said she’d never won anything before and guessed she might have won a phone, but the cash prize was beyond what she’d hoped for. Her 14 year old son who’d been asking for a phone stands to inherit her old handset.

The TXT Rush Promotion is into its final week and is open to all Vodafone Postpay and Prepay customers.

Vodafone customers have had the chance to win one of five weekly prizes of a Return trip to Hong Kong, a Sony Bravia LCD Flat-Screen TV, a Nokia N95 3G handset, a Flashnet and a Nokia 3120 handset by txting the word “Rush” to 362. Each txt costs 99 cents and prepay customers can utilise their free money to participate.

In addition every weekly winner also wins a cash prize based on his/her VodaSTAR rating. Prepay winners collect between $500 and $2, 500 while Postpay winners get $2, 500. Each week the prize pool is worth more than $18, 500.

The other week four winners are Arun Kumar Vikash (Trip to Hong Kong plus $1000), Hari Charan (Sony Bravia LCD TV plus $1500) and Rina Devi (Flashnet plus $500)

The promotion ends at midnight on Friday 26th February and the finals winners will be drawn on March 2nd.