A New Type of Remittance Connected to Facebook: Roamware's Social Top-Ups
U.S.-based Facebook users can now send phone minutes abroad to friends and family members in India, Philippines and Mexico, thanks to a new service called Social Top-Ups from Silicon Valley-based Roamware. It could form the basis of an innovative form of remittances to these emerging markets, and help Facebook on-board new mobile users who are unfamiliar with the web or computing.
The process is pretty simple. You log-in to Social Top-Ups through Facebook, enter the name of your friend (whether or not they belong to the social network), type in their phone number, choose an amount up to roughly $20, then pay with either a credit card, debit card or PayPal.
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