In the ever changing world of technology, mobile operator Vodacom has intoduced the Short Voice Service (SVS) to customers in South Africa. What is SVS you may be asking? Well, instead of sending an SMS which is in text, you can now send a short voice message (30 seconds long) to another Vodacom subscriber without having to talk to them. 

To use SVS, you dial the #digit followed by the number of the recipient (i.e. #0821234567) and leave the SVS - a warning beep/s will sound 25 seconds into the recording to warn the speaker that the 30 second limit has almost been reached. The cost of an SVS will be R0.90 (90 cents) but the SVS service will be free of charge until 9 November 2008. Normal billing will commence on 10 November 2008, and customers will be billed an all-day fixed rate of R0.90 (incl VAT) per SVS sent.

The recipient of the SVS will receive an alert by means of an SMS to dial #99 to retrieve their SVS, free of charge.

Yet another interesting and innovative idea by Vodacom. It will be interesting to see how this new technology does and how quickly the other mobile operators in South Africa start to use it on their own networks.

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