Voice SMS is Catching Nigeria.

Recently Nigeria Visafone launched Voice SMS to it's customers which they can send and recive messages in voice. This will alow them to express their voice with expressions. If they are sending one SMS for the birthday wish they can sing the happy birthday song and send it to the receipant. There is no hassel in the Typing text, counting the number of characters or checking for the receivers coverage.

The 30 second Voice SMS will do all the fun.

Here is Visafone's instructions on how to send and receive voice sms in Nigeria for the Visafone customers.

"Visafone subscribers need to dial ‘*’ followed by the mobile number and speak a short message for 30 seconds in the language of their choice. A recipient on Visafone network gets an SMS message from the sender, and can dial0to hear new voice messages. He can directly retrieve a specific message by dialing a DirectListen™ number in the message.

He can also retrieve previously listened to voice messages by dialing1. A recipient on another mobile network will get an SMS message from the sender, which he can retrieve by directly dialing a DirectListen™ number in the message. Voice SMS messages can be replied to, forwarded, saved, or deleted.

Visafone subscribers pay a price of 15 Naira (approximately US 10 cents) for on-net and 20 Naira (approximately US 14 cents) for off-net messaging to send the messages within Nigeria. First retrieval of a Voice SMS message is free. Subscribers are charged 0.15 Naira per second for subsequent retrievals.".

So catch with the world and express your self with emotions and laugh through the voice sms.