Bild's prepaid mobile service gets off to a successful start

 Bild-Zeitung is currently promoting its new cell phone information offer with a package contract. For just under ten euros, the daily newspaper is now offering a prepaid cell phone card that gives users access to a wide range of news, sports and social information in addition to telephone services. Axel Springer Verlag, the parent company of Bild-Zeitung, announced on Friday that 40,000 of the new prepaid cards had already been sold in the first two days. Due to the huge rush, there were even brief bottlenecks in activating the SIM cards.