Our friends at Mobhappy report that Croatia has now a Blyk clone. Launced by OutThere Media, the service is called Tomato Plus, and it is on the Vip mobile operator network. They give out 50 minutes of calls and 50 text messages per month, in return for up to 10 mobile ads per day, but apparently are limiting that for now to 5 or 6 messages per day.

Yes, its a clear sign you are a success, when you have others copying your idea. Congrats Tomato Plus for this launch, and congrats Blyk for this clone and no doubt many others.

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Tomi T Ahonen is a bestselling author and independent consultant in the emerging areas of next generation wireless who lectures at Oxford University and is seen annually at about 20 telecoms/IT conferences on six continents. His expertise includes the business, applications, services, partnering and marketing of wireless technologies. Tomi provides advanced wireless service marketing plan workshops and business case audits for operators/carriers; new service creation workshops; and value chain analysis for content providers and assists global media, IT and telecoms companies on their transitions to a digitally converged world.

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