Mobile has made a revolution in the arena of communication as well as uses of mobile in business communication providing useful means to communicate anywhere supported by the network. Such technology has brought the below value-added services:
Uses of Mobile for Business Communication
1. Voice-Mail
It is one of the popular services provided by mobile operators. It requires a user to create a mailbox as per the procedure of the operator. When the user is out of network or remains busy, he can divert all incoming calls to a voice mailbox.
As a result, a caller can drop a message in terms of voice and the user can listen to such voice by accessing the mailbox. The user can also add voice notation to inform his or her present status to the caller. It helps both the users and the caller to stay close.
2. Voice SMS
It is a modern service ‘available through mobile technology. The sender encodes his voice and sends it to the receiver to wish and greet with a nice compliment. Voice SMS helps to forward emotion like a written letter.
3. Text SMS
It is one of the most common uses of mobile. It is very easy to send text SMS to mobile and state greetings and wishes instantly through letters and words.
The same text SMS can be given to more than one person once at a time and therefore time and distance barriers can be removed easily.
It is very easy to express feelings through text SMS like:- Call u later, bcz im bz [Orginal message: call you later, because I am busy], Cu tomrw [Original message: See you tomorrow]
4. Web Browsing
Mobile technology is providing a web browsing facility and therefore a. user requires a handset that is WAP, GPRS, or EDGE compatible and available support from the mobile operator.
Web browsing allows us to explore different websites and facilitates the download of games, images, themes, music files, video clips, and entertainment items very easily. Visit the Google play store for mobile apps.
5. Welcome Tune
In welcome tune, when a caller makes a call to a party, he can listen to music, rhyme, or a special voice instead of a ringing sound.
This is entertainment for the caller and therefore a mobile user needs to subscribe to such service and purchase various tunes of his choice to delight any caller.
6. Music Gift
A mobile user can purchase a song or rhyme and can send it to his near and dear one as a gift to wish for a special occasion. This gift carries emotional touch when the receiver listens to gift.
7. Push-Pull service
In our daily life, we need a lot of utility services and therefore push-pull service is one of the means to meet our demands.
We need some’ emergency numbers for fire brigade, ambulance, and hospitals and we also need health tips, beauty tips, or cooking tips for which a mobile user needs to send an SMS only to a dedicated port, and that port will reply as per request.
For example: to seek fire help, one has to write “FIRE” from the SMS option and send it to a port only and the port will reply with some numbers of fire brigade within a few seconds.
Push-pull service has made our life simple reducing time and cost to avail of any desired service.
Given the above use mobile is most frequently used in business communication.
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