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| Sunday, 29 February 2004 |
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BellTalk enables listening & replying to e-mails from any phone BellTalk is a new, innovative service made available by Lanka Bell for the first time in Sri Lanka. It allows Lanka Bell's BellNet users to retrieve, listen to and reply to their e-mails from any telephone, anywhere in the world. Subscribers to the BellTalk service can listen to the e-mails receive in their BellNet e-mail boxes, and send verbal replies. The received e-mails can also be read conventionally on a computer screen. To listen to received e-mails, a user can dial 5 373 373 from any fixed line, mobile or pay phone, and enter the personal identification number (PIN). Voice-prompts then guide the user to retrieve e-mails from the server and listen to them. The user can select the e-mails to be listened to by pressing relevant keys on the phone.The voice-prompts also help the user to make verbal replies, which can be heard by the recipients on their multimedia computer speakers. Such voice replies will be sent as attachments in the form of wave files, which can be heard by the recipient simply by double-clicking them. "BellTalk is ideal for busy people who are often on the move," says Ramesh Sithambaram, Assistant Product Manager, Lanka Bell. "It enables them to check their e-mails from anywhere without requiring access to a computer. They can simply call in from any phone, anywhere in the world. And they can send replies immediately from the same phone to anyone who has a multimedia computer with speakers," he added.BellTalk is designed by Atlantis One Technologies, who also designed the BellNet portal which provides Internet and e-mail facilities to Lanka Bell customers. As Phase I of the BellTalk project implementation, Lanka Bell is providing the service to 200 customers of BellNet, free of charge until 31st March. Thereafter they will be charged a monthly fee of Rs. 50 for this service. Lanka Bell plans to extend the BellTalk service progressively to all the users of BellNet. Lanka Bell is a BOI approved company owned by several global giants including Transasia Telecom (Singapore), Miel Investments (holding Company of Transmarco, Singapore), AIDEC (Japan) and Nortel Networks (North America). |
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