Now you can chat instantly with your friends, colleagues and family members using your mobile phones through mobile instant messaging (MIM) as you do now on popular instant messengers such as Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk among others.
All the 10 GSM operators in the country will soon launch the MIM service which allows real time chatting among mobile users and MIM users can see their friends online, chat even in groups on their mobile phones.
However, MIM can also offer a link to fixed IM users so that they can chat with their friends who are on computers or laptops.
To avail the service, mobile handsets should have GPRS facility (web enabled facility). Although the service is initially offered in English language, operators are also planning to offer the service in local languages.
The percentage of mobile users with IM-capable phones will grow to 62 percent in 2010 from a mere 4 percent currently.The commercial service will be launched in about three weeks time. The telecom tariffs in the country is among the lowest in the world so the tariff for the service will also be low.
Source: Eonomic Times
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