Sprint introduced a new service “StarStarMe,” that lets wireless customers assign themselves a short nickname or first name instead of a number. As Sprint wrote in a press release Monday about the new service:
Imagine meeting someone and instead of telling them 10 hard-to-remember digits, giving them your own memorable mobile number, like **SARAH (**72724) or **CHLOE (**24563).StarStar Me allows consumers to choose a name, nickname or unique word in place of their mobile phone number – then people can call them on their mobile phone by simply tapping the star key twice on the phone’s keypad, followed by the name, nickname, or unique word they chose, using keypad letters or characters.
The service costs $2.99 a month for existing Sprint wireless cusotmers only.
H/T: TechCrunch
