Recycling Phones for Minutes

Recently, a new advertised-subsidized wireless service, XeroMobile, announced a partnership with The Wireless Alliance to award XeroMobile users airtime in return for their used mobile phones.


For XeroMobile, who hasn't even "gone live" yet, this is a good way to get their name in the news. The Wireless Alliance, however, has been a part of such programs since 2001. Their website states that since then they have reclaimed over 500 tons of wireless equipment from landfills. They say that is "repurposed in a zero waste, environmentally-conscious manner."

If anyone wants to send in their old cell phones, it appears that they will accept individual phones.