TMS - Talk Messaging Service

Reliance extends the benefits of messaging of Mobile phones to country's landlines
Introduces Talking Message Service (TMS), the next generation short message Service
Now you can send voice messages from Reliance Mobile to any phone in India, be it mobile, FWP or landline
DAKC,Navi Mumbai, April 27, 2006
For the first time in India, both mobile phones as well as landlines, irrespective of their operator can receive a short voice message in any language across the country. Reliance Infocomm's Talking Message Service or TMS, the next generation short voice message service launched today will allow all Reliance Mobile users to send voice messages to not only other mobiles but Fixed Wireless phones and landlines.
"Messaging is no longer going to be limited to texting. TMS will give a new dimension to short messages with a personalized touch of customer's own voice. Now one can send the messages with the same intensity of expression, personalization, caring, etc... We are confident that this cool offering will be a huge success amongst the youth and those who do not prefer texting," says Mahesh Prasad, President, Applications and Solutions Group, Reliance Communications.
What is more interesting is the fact that this service is operator independent and technology agnostic. That means a conventional BSNL/MTNL landline can also receive a TMS, so can any GSM or any other CDMA customer.
To use the service, Reliance customers will have to dial 1234111 from their phone (Mobile or Hello) and follow the simple voice prompts to record the message and send it on any mobile or landline number nationwide. The recipient will get a message on their mobile alerting of an incoming Talking Message. After receiving the alert, customers will get a call playing back the Talking Message from the sender of the message with sender's phone number (CLI). If the recipient is a Reliance customer, and he/she is busy and does not want to take the Talking Message call, they have the convenience of retrieving the Talking Messages, which are stored for 24 hours duration by calling 1234111. If the recipient is a landline customer, he/she will receive calls, which will playback the message. All calls made to 1234111 to record or retrieve a Talking Message are charged at Rs.2/Min.
TMS also has the potential to make messaging an easier option for people in smaller towns and cities where English has been the biggest deterrent in attracting users to the world of SMS. TMS removes any language barrier or the trouble of typing and is being seen as the first step towards Messaging taking the next big leap in the interiors of the country.
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Reliance Communications Venture Ltd. (RCVL), a member of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is India's foremost integrated telecommunications company with over 19 million Indian and 500,000 global individual consumers. RCVL's corporate clientele includes 600 Indian and 250 multinational corporations, and - through subsidiary FLAG Telecom -- over 200 global carriers.
The company has a pan-Indian, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire Infocomm value chain.