NZ TOP UP TO DIGICEL PHONES

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Digicel CUSTOMERS CAN NOW GET TOPPED UP BY FRIENDS & FAMILY FROM NEW ZEALAND

Samoan’s living in New Zealand can buy and send the gift of Digicel Top Up back to loved ones in Samoa

Wednesday, 21 July, Samoa/Tonga/Fiji:  

Mobile phone users in Samoa/Fiji/Tonga can now receive a welcome gift of Digicel mobile Top Up from New Zealand with the launch in Auckland  today of Digicel’s new ”Top Up Your Friends & Family” service.

Digicel, the Pacific Island’s leading mobile provider has made Top Up vouchers available as a gift option to New Zealand’s Pacific Island community in more than 1000 convenience stores and supermarkets throughout the country.  

Top Up can be purchased in NZ$15, $20, $30 and $50 denominations with the credit sent directly to Digicel prepaid mobiles in Samoa/Fiji/Tonga via www.digicelrecharge.com or via 0800 DIGICEL from New Zealand.

The selected Digicel mobile phone will receive the Top Up value in the (local currency) and with great exchange rates and no fees attached, the service is an excellent value remittance or gift option.  To celebrate the new service Digicel is offering a bonus 10% Top Up credit on all Top Up sent from New Zealand for the month of July.

Pepe Christian Fruean, CEO, Digicel Samoa said; “Digicel Top Up in New Zealand is an excellent remittance or gift option to help families and friends stay in touch.  Digicel mobile international rates for calls from Samoa, Tonga, Fiji to New Zealand are significantly cheaper than mobile calling rates available in New Zealand and we believe that this service will provide another way to help families, friends, church groups and communities stay connected. Make sure you let your family and friends in New Zealand know about the service and start receiving the gift of Top Up.”

(Samoa only)

Speaking at the launch of “Digicel Top Up Friends & Family” His Excellency, Mr Faolotoi Reupena Pogi, Consul General Samoa said;    “Being in contact and sending money, value or gifts back to the islands to family, friends and the community is integral to the culture of Pacific Islanders.  The amount of money sent from New Zealand annually is phenomenal and has a hugely positive impact on the lives of the Islanders and the development of these nations.  I therefore highly commend Digicel on this service which allows people send value home, with no fees attached, meaning more of the value gets to those who need it.  The gift of Top Up or essentially the ability to communicate will mean families can stay connected even if they are divided by the Pacific Ocean.”

See www.digicelrecharge,com for more details

ABOUT DIGICEL GROUP

After nine years of operation, Digicel Group Limited has 10.8 million customers across its 32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific. The company is renowned for delivering best value, best service and best network.

Digicel is the lead sponsor of Caribbean, Central American and Pacific sports teams, including the Special Olympics teams throughout these regions. Digicel sponsors the West Indies cricket team and is also the title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean Championships and the Copa de Naciones Digicel. In the Pacific, Digicel is the proud sponsor of several national rugby teams and also sponsors the Vanuatu cricket team.

Digicel also runs a host of community-based initiatives across its markets and has set up Digicel Foundations in Jamaica, Haiti and Papua New Guinea which focus on educational, cultural and social development programmes.

It is incorporated in Bermuda and its markets comprise: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Nauru, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos and Vanuatu. Digicel also has coverage in St. Martin and St. Barts in the Caribbean.