Uganda Telecom, a telecommunications provider, has launched a user friendly Voice SMS service on Kirusa (News - Alert) Platform.

 

Kirusa is a major vendor of Voice SMS and a developer of mobile value-added services. Uganda Telecom’s prepaid and postpaid subscribers would now allow users to send Voice SMS to any mobile subscriber in Uganda for a fixed price.

 

The company officials says the process to send Voice SMS is simple and both on-net and off-net subscribers who are not on Uganda Telecom network can listen and reply to the Voice SMS messages sent by a Uganda Telecom subscriber.

 

With the simplified voice SMS solution, Uganda Telecom subscribers would now be able to communicate faster, more easily and with emotion, without needing to type in text messages, fixing typos.

 

The solution also offers subscribers the option to hear new and old Voice SMS, and to reply and forward messages.

 

"With this launch, we aim to introduce the world's best Voice SMS offering to our subscribers. I am confident that Ugandans will find this mode of communication much simpler to use. Compared to standard text SMS, Voice SMS is a more exciting way to deliver short messages as it eliminates the arduous typing and presents convenience of sending out a message to a friend or loved one,” said Hans Paulsen, chief commercial officer of Uganda Telecom in a statement.

 

Paulsen said that the launch of Voice SMS is part of the company’s strategy to introduce user friendly, reliable and cost effective communication medium to Ugandans.

"We were impressed with the ease that Kirusa demonstrated during Voice SMS implementation in our network. We chose Kirusa for its proven capabilities with deployments across the globe," he said.

 

Uganda telecom provides voice and data communication solutions that include fixed telephony, mobile telephony, ISP and data communications.

 

"We are pleased to have teamed with Uganda Telecom to bring the Voice SMS service to market, the first in East Africa," said Inderpal Singh Mumick (News - Alert), CEO of Kirusa.