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Nimbuzz partners with Virgin Mobile to launch instant messaging
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 04 August 2009, 22:45 IST
Bangalore: Nimbuzz, a multi community mobile social messaging and VoIP provider has entered into agreement with Virgin Mobile India. With this partnership, Virgin Mobile will be able to serve elements of Nimbuzz like social networking and chatting to its youth centric customers. Under the brand name 'Vchatter', this is for the first time Nimbuzz is offering its multibrand WAP chat application to Virgin Mobile users to access multiple instant messengers from a single login.
In the first phase, Vchatter will allow Virgin Mobile users to chat in the very familiar Vbytes (Virgin Mobile's WAP portal) environment. Vchatter brings a one click log in to multiple instant messaging like Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, MSN Messenger, Facebook, and Skype through the Vbytes portal for free. Vchatter has been designed to meet the Virgin Mobile's young user's needs with a customized User Interface and design created by Virgin Mobile.
In the second phase, the Virgin branded Nimbuzz Java applications will be launched in Virgin Mobile's upcoming pre paid handsets. The Nimbuzz's "Vchatter" mobile chat service will be promoted through a webpage on the Virgin Mobile website, along with a direct contact to consumer campaign. Nimbuzz has already launched an official blog to interact with its community in India for news, behind the scenes insight, new features and trends.
"We believe that the collaboration will gratify the social communication needs of India's hyper-connected youth. Our current global growth at the rate of one new user signing up every three seconds is handy proof of the appetite for our service," said Vikas Saxena, Country Head, Nimbuzz India.
"Vchatter makes all instant messengers accessible to customers with a single simultaneous login. Now the users will not have to repeatedly feed in different usernames & passwords for multiple IMs," said Deval Parikh, Chief Officer, Handset, VAS & Procurement, Virgin Mobile India.
