Ringing Bells stops taking orders for 24 hrs for Freedom251

Ringing Bells, the company that launched 'Freedom 251', the world's cheapest smartphone at an unbelievable Rs 251 has stopped taking orders for 24 hours due to overload.

The Noida-based company launched the smartphone yesterday. Bookings started today morning at 0600 hrs.

"Dear friends, we are very grateful for your enormous response and your kind patronage and would submit that as of now we received approx. Six Lacs hits per second as a result of your kind overwhelming response, servers are over loaded," Freedom251 said on its website.

"We humbly submit that we are therefore taking a pause and upgrading the service and will revert within or before 24 hours," it added.

The company has been set up five months ago by Amity University graduate Mohit Kumar Goel. He launched the Freedom 251 at an event attended by BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi.

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