Following in the footsteps of Skype of Microsoft, Sprint, one of the major mobile service providers here in the US have announced that they will be waiving and crediting calls and text messages made by Sprint customers to Nepal – in a retroactive move, starting from April 25 onward, and this particularly benevolent move is set to continue all the way through to May 16, 2015. In other words, if you were to make calls or write out texts to Nepal, there will be no charges involved to all postpaid and prepaid customers of Sprint, Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA.
This particular move should be lauded, since it has been shown and proven before that in the event of an emergency, the possibility of text messages going through would be a whole lot higher as opposed to that of a phone call, and this will in turn do its bit to free up networks for critical communication between first responders, apart from other emergency personnel and aid workers.
Not only that, Sprint is also set to waive standard text-messaging fees when it comes to the different Nepal disaster-relief short codes and mobile-donation campaigns, beginning from today and ending also on the same date as mentioned earlier, which would be May 16. [Press Release]
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