OneAssist, a company which provides consumers with one place to reach out for emergency assistance related to financial cards, mobiles, and travel have now launched, MobileAssist Platinum, a product offering which gives you mobile protection along with handset insurance.
In the press statement, Gagan Maini Co-Founder, OneAssist, said, “Our research told us that people use mobile phones as their second brain and significantly almost one third of them have lost their phone. A product like MobileAssist helps protect the most important device in everybody’s life and helps them get back to life, after loss. The insurance cover along with data and device protection makes the offering complete by adding financial security.”
MobileAssist platinum, offers an insurance cover of up to Rs 15,000 against the handset loss and is available for an introductory price of Rs 1999.
The offering offers a number of features, to name a few:
• One call to block your lost phone and lock the SIM to avoid misuse.
• Real time data back of your SMS, contacts, pictures and videos, on losing your mobile.
• You can remotely wipe out all the data from your lost phone.
• Doorstep delivery of a temporary handset with all your data on it.
• You get back up to Rs.15,000 as Insurance cover for your lost handset.
• You also get your own online locker - Docusafe - which allows you to store all your personal and financial documents.
As far as buying this offering goes, read the fine print carefully to understand what is covered and the exclusions.
Common sense tell us that unless you have a high end expensive mobile, mobile insurance is not really needed. Also the back up features is something that you could do it on your own. To avail this offer or not, is entirely you call. More over, read this story to know what else is out there as far as mobile insurance goes.