Port au Prince, Republic of Haiti, and New Providence, NJ; October 29, 2008: Communication Cellulaire D’Haïti S.A. (ComCEL), the first telecommunications operator to launch GSM service in Haiti which provides high-quality affordable wireless service under the Voilà brand name, today announced the launch of Voice SMS service sourced from Kirusa. Voice SMS will enable Voilà subscribers to send messages in their own voice. Kirusa is the world’s leading vendor of Voice SMS and a leading developer of mobile value-added services.

Kirusa Voice SMS is a world renowned mobile messaging application. It enables mobile subscribers to compose short voice messages. Voilà has made the Voice SMS service available to all of its prepaid and postpaid subscribers.

To compose a Voice SMS, a Voilà subscriber just has to dial ‘*’ and the number of the person to whom they wish to send the message, speak for 20 seconds and disconnect. If the recipient is a Voilà subscriber, the individual will receive a text SMS notification and can dial *0* to hear their Voice SMS. Old Voice SMS can be retrieved by dialing *1*. They also have the option of replying, forwarding, saving or deleting the Voice SMS messages. The Voice SMS platform will automatically call off-net (who are not on the Voilà network) message recipients in Haiti and play their message. The message recipient can elect to reply after listening to the Voice SMS.

Voilà subscribers will pay HTG 3.00 (approximately USD 0.08) to send a Voice SMS. Listening to the Voice SMS for the first time is free of charge. To make the service available to its subscribers, Voilà has incorporated Kirusa Voice SMS service integrated with the NMS Vision server media platform into its mobile network.

Commenting on the occasion, Inderpal Singh Mumick, CEO of Kirusa, says, “Kirusa Voice SMS has proven successful in Asia and Middle East. We are proud to have brought this successful application to Americas, specifically to Haiti.” He further added, “Voice SMS is a revenue generating service. Its derivative applications can result in incremental revenues for the operators while providing a lower cost communication service to customers than traditional voice products.”

“We are excited about the launch of Voice SMS service which opens up a new way of mobile messaging for our subscribers, first of its kind in Haiti,” said Robin Padberg, CEO of ComCEL. He further added, “Kirusa implemented the service in Haiti within six weeks, and continues to impress us with its product’s superior technology and enhanced features.”

http://www.comcelhaiti.com
http://www.kirusa.com/