KampungPulsa Makes Buying Phone Credits Easy, Plans to Sell Over Social Media

In Indonesia, where everybody is well connected via mobile phones, most telcos try to give the best deals to provide cheap calls and messaging. In an effort to help people buy phone credits more easily, now KampungPulsa.com provides instant access to get them.

By logging in as member of KampungPulsa, anyone can buy phone credits from any phone operator at anytime, and for a price slightly cheaper than credit agents. The website is useful for anyone who needs emergency phone credits — for example, in the middle of the night where there is no physical phone shop in operation.

Rendi Meliala, one of the six founders of the start-up, explained:

The idea of KampungPulsa is inspired from my own experience, which is almost a daily problem for every mobile phone users in this country to find a phone credit seller.

The service isn’t just for personal credit users. Resellers can also use this website for business as it is available 24/7. Member only needs to transfer some amount of money as a deposit via bank/ATM, and after that they can buy phone credit according to the amounts specified on the website. KampungPulsa is planning to later expand the convenience of buying credits from Yahoo Messenger and Twitter.

Since the site launched last May, KampungPulsa has 400 members, and it will likely continue growing as the need for phone credits in Indonesia is still high. Considering that no other website offers this unique service, this start-up stands a good chance of success.