| 17th November 2006 - Hutchison Essar and Nokia have announced
an alliance in India, to offer a nation-wide SMS service in
9 regional languages. The service called INDISMS is offered
to prepaid and post paid Hutch customers, using Nokia phones,
enabling them to send and receive SMS in Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi,
Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil and Telugu. The
application is free of cost, though the customer will be charged
Rs.1.60 for downloading the 'INDISMS' application.
Devinder Kishore, director marketing, Nokia India, said,
"At Nokia, we are committed to connecting people. The
launch of INDISMS with Hutch is a key step to connect with
the diverse Indian audience and further enhance the Nokia
users" experience by allowing them to communicate in
their native languages. Currently over 30 Nokia phones are
equipped to support 9 Indian languages using this application.
Going forward, our endeavour will be to expand this service
to an even wider range of our phones.
Hutch customers can access the service by sending INDISMS
as an SMS to 123 and downloading through the WAP link. Users
can also download the application by logging on to PlanetHutch
and clicking on the INDISMS link.
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