Virgin Mobile started on Sept. 30 an online scramble for the best mobile numbers in its brand new 0570 range, and announced a charity auction of some of the most coveted numbers to become available in the Kingdom for years.



Virgin Mobile elite numbers have been set aside for the charity auction including 0570000000, which is thought to be one of the most desirable numbers ever to be sold at auction in the Kingdom, and 0570570570.



Other Virgin Mobile 0570 numbers are available on a first come first served basis on www.virginmobile.sa.



Prospective Virgin Mobile members can pay to reserve prestigious special numbers, whilst hundreds of thousands of numbers from the million number range are free of charge to reserve.



Virgin Mobile has moved its website to a new ultra-high capacity web-hosting service to cope with the expected high demand.



“We are proud of our great new 0570 number range and we are asking Saudi Arabia, ‘What’s your number?’”, said Karim Benkirane, Chief Executive Officer at Virgin Mobile. “0570000000 has an obvious appeal but many people have a number that is special to them, or perhaps want to share number combinations with friends. We want to let our customers personalize their mobile experience by choosing for themselves from our range of a million numbers.”



To celebrate its start in Saudi Arabia, Virgin Mobile has also picked highly attractive numbers to give away for free. All Virgin Mobile followers on Facebook (VirginMobileKSA) and Twitter (Virginmobileksa) have a chance to win a free special number. — SG