Stay online with Airtel Messenger

Airtel customers can now log on to chat with friends and family. The company has unveiled Airtel Messenger that allows mobile users to text chat within a personalized community or set of communities.

According to a report, the service allows Airtel mobile customers to get a desktop chat experience on their mobiles. Users can send and receive messages in real time via their mobile phones without the need to be attached to a computer, the report added. And this is not all. According to a review report of the Airtel Messenger, the service incorporates personalized features like options like online and offline, busy and the like.

Users can also convey multiple emoticons while in conversation and also have multiple textual conversations at the same time. Another significant addition is the presence-enabled address book helps senders know when their contacts are online.

The Airtel Messenger is seen as a convenient and value-added text-messaging service that will largely appeal to young professionals who want to be in constant touch with their friends, family, and business associates. Customers, who have a GPRS and Airtel Live-activated handset, can download the Airtel Messenger by registering fo the service by sending an SMS to 57070 with the message 'IM'. Bharti has said that it would offer Airtel Messenger free-of-cost till August 31, 2007.