BSNL subscribers can SMS in any Indian language

Bangalore, Dec 22: Public Sector Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), with technical support from city-based Geneva Software Technologies Limited, has launched Geneva Messenger Service (GMS), enabling its subscribers to send SMS in their language of choice.

BSNL Chief General Manager Kuppuswamy, after launching the innovative service here, said the BSNL Karnataka telecom circle was the first to have this service, which would be made available across the country shortly.

He said the service enabled BSNL customers having EMS compatible handsets to compose and send short messages in an Indian language of their choice, including Kannada, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. The launching of GMS service would break the language barrier for data communication and help over 80 per cent of India's rural population communicate using the technology in the same way an English SMS user does, he added.

Geneva Software Managing Director Muralikrishna Reddy said the new technology had been patented in the US and PCT, Switzerland, would act as a bridge between diverse cultures and languages that existed across the world. The solution was far superior and different from existing ones as it was independent of the mobile phone and cellular operator and provided SMS solutions to 14 Indian languages in a single application.

UNI