“I Miss you so much, It hurts….” Yes, we are talking about the new Airtel Voice SMS commercial that you must have come across on TV. What the ad tries to do, is rope in people to use the Voice SMS service on offer, as a substitute to the normal SMS. The USP would definitely be the ‘jazbaat’ or the ‘feeling’ that is added to an SMS, which you could not do with a normal SMS.
Though the idea has been put across fairly well, the service could find very less takers. SMS is generally used for short and precise communication and if I wanted the recipient to hear my voice, I would rather call. Anyways, if you’re still interested in using the service, add a star (*) before dialing a number and record your SMS. Each Voice SMS is charged at 75 paise.
Its only for AIRTEL TO AIRTEL,Why Telegyaan forgot to mention this key info??because this facility is limited to just OWN-NETWORK only!!!
This isn’t a new service. I believe Airtel had this even before coz I remember using it in May this year. @ topic
Well Atleast it does have something. MTNL doesn’t ! @ sanjay
@It is not from airtel to airtel only. You can send voice sms to people on other networks. Only catch is the other person will have to dial a specified number to listen to your message. Guess what..he will have to pay standard calling charges for the above.
@Telegyaan,
The service is not quite useless as it saves you the pain of typing the message. There are some more interesting situations where you will find this voice sms service quite useful. I have covered some of those in my post at
http://binaryday.com/2008/11/05/voice-sms-from-airtel-a-great-concept/
yes i agree Airtel started this more than a year and half back
Airtel is way ahead in VAS unlike other, at least it was not the last to start something like callertunes and gprs in mumbai……
@Hrarshad,Well at MTNL already this service is available from last 2 years and MTNL subscriber can able to send “VOICE SMS” to any number across india including all Mobile & Landline of ANY NETWORK.Your tele-gyaan is not updated on MTNL! som may be u told the above.
well MTNL is way ahed in this VAS-called Voice SMS from AIR TEL!!
@ Sanjay,
Hmm … Thats your claim. I believe, there’s a considerable service lag from MTNL in its basic services – I guess no one really cares about VAS it offers. Getting a call through and getting it right I guess is more important a case with MTNL. And none of the MTNL Cellular users I know, know about this service. You really get worked up at times!
Nothing personal but Its a fact, Airtel is much better than MTNL !