There are already many ways to top up your ‘pulsa’ or phone credit – via the ATM, supermarkets, street pulsa sellers – and soon motorcycle taxi hailing app Go-Jek will offer their own pulsa top up service for people on the go.
Go-Jek CEO Nadiem Makarin yesterday announced the estimated launch date for the service – predictably named Go-Pulsa – in which passengers can buy pulsa top up vouchers from Go-Jek drivers.
“It will be available for customers [to buy from] Go-Jek drivers in about 4 months’ time,” Nadiem said yesterday, as quoted by Tempo.
When Go-Pulsa is available, Go-Jek drivers will carry Rp 50K and Rp 100K top up vouchers, which would be sold to customers for a small additional charge per transaction.
Mind you, Go-Pulsa is available exclusively for Telkomsel customers, as the service is a collaboration between the two companies and telecommunications vendor Tiphone Mobile Indonesia.
Telkomsel is also providing mobile sim cards to an estimated 250,000 Go-Jek drivers so that they can call each other free of charge. Maybe they should find a way to abolish call charges between Go-Jek driver and customer instead? We’re sure we’re not the only ones who have been given deliberate miss calls from Go-Jek drivers so that we’re forced to return their calls at the expense of our own pulsa.
