Bmobile presents prize for State of Origin 1 winner

Caption:  Rodney Rumints testing out his new entertainment system.

By MATTHEW VARI

Sunday, June 8, 2014 (Sunday Chronicle, PNG)

WITH the first State of Origin match already gone to the Blue corner, an eager blues fan and Bmobile prepaid subscriber Rodney Rumints topped off the win to become the first lucky recipient of a Star Vision home entertainment system in the mobile service provider’s State of Origin Competition.

It is an initiative of Bmobile to reward three customers with three brand new entertainment systems, each consisting of a 32 inch screen, DVD player, and a speaker set, during the much loved State of Origin 2014 series.

Rodney, who resides just outside of Port Moresby near the Pacific Adventist University entered the competition via text and received the winning call telling him that he had won.

“I’ve been a long time Bmobile user since 2005, and this is my first time to win something after I sent four texts with two each supporting either team,” said the happy Rumints.

“I am still with Bmobile because there rates are cheap, despite the limitations in coverage to call my home village.”

He said that he was very happy to win the prize and thanked Bmobile for initiating the competition.

Bmobile Group CEO Sundar Ramamurthy congratulated Rodney on being the first winner for the three game series, reminding him that they appreciated his loyalty and support.

“I want to congratulate you for entering four times for the competition to win the prize,” Ramamurthy said.

“Through people like yourself in participation that we can afford to do this, it shows us that you believe in us.”

He said that it was the first time they have run a competition during the State of Origin series.

“The Idea behind competition is to generate user interest and try to get people to participate using the Bmobiles.”

“And response for us was a lot bigger than we anticipated- which goes in line with the fact that we have been fixing the network for the last seven months.”

“In terms of going forward we want to enhance our coverage in terms of Port Moresby to Lae to Hagan has been our core focus that is completed.”

“We will then be focussing on the other towns as well as our remote sites to increase the quality of our coverage and pricing.”

He added that the aim was to get more Papua New Guineans believing in Bmobile promised bigger and better competitions as their customer base grows.

“We will get more customers, which in turn enable them to get more of our promotion activities like this- they all work in synchronisation.”

Two more lucky Bmobile customers are in the running to win the two remaining entertainment systems for games two and three, with plans to even fly lucky winner to games in the series in the future.