Tata Indicom subscribers can now Tweet on voice
Kirusa’s First of Its Kind ‘Call-n-Tweet’ service
enables TATA Indicom subscribers to send voice Tweets
Mumbai, India, and New Providence, NJ, Monday, August
16, 2010: Tata Teleservices Limited, India's fastest-growing pan-India
dual-technology telecom service provider, announced the launch
of Kirusa’s path-breaking ‘Call-n-Tweet’ service
for all TTSL and TTML subscribers. This unique ‘Call-n-Tweet’ service
will enable Tata Indicom subscribers to update their Twitter
status by posting Voice Tweets (short audio snippets) from
their mobile without logging on the internet.
The new Call-n-Tweet service is available to all TTSL and TTML subscribers
across India, whatever the mobile handset model is. A subscriber
can sign up for the service at callntweet.com by using his Twitter
account details. Subscribers need to just dial 50007 and send a voice
tweet to update their status on Twitter. A user can speak in any
language. A voice tweet surpasses the limitation of 140 characters.
The subscribers pay a price of Re 0.80 (approximately 0.02 USD)
for sending a voice tweet from their mobile. The Call-n-Tweet service
on Tata Teleservices network leverages the superior capabilities
of Voice SMS that had been sourced from Kirusa.
Commenting on the launch, Mr. Lloyd Mathias, Chief Marketing Officer,
Tata Teleservices Limited said, “Online social networking is
completely integrated with today’s lifestyle. The need to be
connected to friends and acquaintances at your own pace, is gaining
momentum day by day. At last count, Twitter was attracting 190 million
visitors per month and generating 65 million tweets a day. We wanted
to give our subscribers an amazing option to log on to Twitter 24X7.”
He further added, “Kirusa has proved its robustness in bringing
an innovative social networking service to the market. The introduction
of Call-n-Tweet service on our network would give our subscribers
a very convenient and personal way to tweet without logging on the
internet. Voice tweets would enable them to add a personal touch
to their status updates.”
Speaking on the launch, Taranjit Singh Batra, VP Sales of Kirusa
said, “Access to social networking sites is the next reality
check for carriers in Mobile Value Add Services. These sites are
firing the imagination of young generation nowadays. To enable them
to log in and leave updates is a functionality which no carrier can
afford to ignore today.”
About Tata Teleservices Limited
Tata Teleservices Limited is one of India’s leading
private telecom service providers, having a pan-India presence
across all
of India’s 22 telecom Circles. The company offers integrated
telecom solutions to its customers under the brands Tata Indicom,
Tata DOCOMO, Tata Photon and Tata Walky and uses both the CDMA
and GSM technology platform(s) for its wireless networks. Tata
Teleservices Limited, along with Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra)
Limited,
operates
in more than 450,000 towns and villages across the country,
serving over 76 million subscribers. After its collaboration
with Japan’s
NTT DOCOMO in November 2008, Tata Teleservices has so far launched
GSM services under the TATA DOCOMO brand name in all the 18
telecom Circles where it received spectrum from the Government
of India.
The company recently launched a new brand on the GSM platform—T24—in
partnership with Indian retail giant Future Group. Tata Teleservices’ bouquet
of telephony services includes mobile services, wireless desktop
phones, public booth telephony and Wireline services. For details,
visit www.tatateleservices.com, www.tataindicom.com and www.tatadocomo.com
About Kirusa
Kirusa is one of the leading global developers of Voice SMS
based Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS); enabling mobile subscribers
to ‘reach out’ to their family and friends. Kirusa’s
solutions include the hugely successful Kirusa Voice SMS, the world’s
most advanced “Voice SMS” solution that has been selected
by more than thirty carriers around the world. Kirusa Voice SMS enables
mobile subscribers to send messages by speaking. Kirusa has pioneered
a suite of applications that facilitate mobile subscribers through
voice viz. Call-n-Tweet; LoudMouth; Auto-Voice-SMS; Video SMS; Carry
Forward; Emissary; International and Convergent Voice SMS, Voice
SMS Gateway; Kirusa Exchange service and Brew and Java clients. Kirusa
has launched a Consumer Corner, an online site for information and
resources on Voice based MVAS for mobile subscribers. Kirusa solutions
are built on Kirusa’s patented and patent pending technology
and its highly reliable and scalable multimodal platform. The platform
enables carriers to cost effectively deploy additional revenue generating
applications such as messaging, search, information, and entertainment.
Kirusa’s solutions are used by mobile subscribers millions
of times daily. Kirusa has been recognized as one of top 100 technology
companies by Silicon India for years 2007 and 2008, and one of top
25 emerging technology companies by Smart Techie magazine. Headquartered
in New Jersey and led by an experienced team of wireless telecom
executives and technologists, Kirusa has sales offices in three continents,
with research and development facilities in New Delhi and in Bangalore,
India. ‘Kirusa Voice SMS,’ ‘DirectListen™,’ ‘Call-n-Tweet’ and ‘Speed
Codes’ are trademarks of Kirusa, Inc. For more information,
please visit www.kirusa.com.
Media Contacts
Tata Teleservices Limited
Shefali Jhaveri
Tata Teleservices Limited
shefali.jhaveri@tatatel.co.in
Atul Dwivedi
Vaishnavi Corporate Communications
+91 9212743191
adwivedi@vccpl.com
Kirusa
Anju T Makin
Alchemy Corporate Communications
Tel: +91 98101 70135
anju_makin@alchemycc.com
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