Airtel to soon launch voice SMS on landline

New Delhi, July 31 (UNI) Bharti Airtel Ltd today said it will soon launch 'Voice SMS' over fixed line, to enable its cutomers to send Voice SMSs to any mobile, and soon expand the services to send messages to other Airtel Fixed Line customers.

The company will launch this service on the BubbleTALK services.

To use the service, a customer has to dial '*' followed by the mobile number of the customer they wish to send the Voice SMS to, it said in a statement.

The recipient then receives an SMS alert on his mobile phone, notifying them that they have a new Bubble message. The recipient then retrieves the Voice SMS by dialing '0' from their mobile.

BubbleTALK, is the carrier grade intentional voice messaging service provided by Bubble Motion. It has eight mobile operator partners worldwide, in six countries, and local points-of-presence in an additional 31 countries, BubbleTALK is available to over one billion people with local-dial access.

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