Aircel launches Wish Tunes, allowing mobile users to greet callers with personalized season’s greetings

Telecom Lead India: Aircel has launched Wish Tunes in India. The new service allows Aircel customers to greet their callers with personalized season’s greetings.

Utilizing personalized Wish Tunes service, Aircel customers can personalize their dialer tune with their names and greet their callers with current season’s greetings (eg – Nikhil wishes you happy Diwali) and the same  format will be followed for other festivals as well. This unique service has been modeled on the hugely successful Signature tunes.

Aircel customers can set their personalized Wish-Tune by dialing 5300035 (Rs 6/min). Customers can select names from a ‘name catalogue’ of over 4,500+ common Indian first names or leave their name request on the IVR; Wish-Tune will be set within 72 hours. Alternatively, customers can also send in their requests via SMS by sending STW<Space><Name> to 5300035 (Example: STW Amar to 5300035) for Rs 10/SMS.

The service is available in 14 circles – Chennai, Rest of Tamil Nadu, Assam, North-East, Jammu & Kashmir, Bihar, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh, Kolkata, Gujarat, Punjab, West Bengal, Haryana and Rajasthan.

Meanwhile, from November 2, Aircel will offer a range of usage plans for Apple iPhone 5 that will allow customers to connect to its fast HSPA+ network.

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