A UK based ringtone company has launched a rather odd service, which aims to ship mobile phones to Russia - where they are then buried in the ground. The burial site, in South-Eastern Russia is notable though - for being the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, the world's largest such feature.

Mobile Fun has signed a short-term contract with local company KMABS based in Stariy Oscol (an important metallurgical town, in the very heart of KMA).

"We are happy to expand our budding mobile phone burial service internationally with the invaluable help of Mobile Fun Ltd" said CEO of KMABS "...Russia has taken to mobile phones in a huge way and is leading other countries in more unusual mobile phone services and products."

"For an additional £5 your old mobile phone can send a final farewell SMS text message from Russia to your new mobile" added Matthew Page (Mobile Fun's Mobile Content and PSMS Manager).

"The reason we selected the world's biggest magnetic anomaly is not just for environmental reasons to minimise the potential electromagnetic radiation impact of a large number of mobile phones buried in one location", said Ruslan Fedorovsky, Mobile Funs newly appointed Head of Mobile."...There also is an interesting, although controversial idea increasing in popularity amongst Russian mobile phone users that over time, some personal electromagnetic 'zen' becomes trapped inside old mobile phones.

"I am positive that huge magnetic radiation of KMA will be strong enough to release any trapped electromagnetic subconscious psyche." categorically states Andrey Koltakov, the Russian radio-advertising tycoon and popular womens lifestyle guru who claims to be behind this strange new-age belief.

Posted to the site on 23rd January 2008

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