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Kirusa Launches InstaVoice® Social Media Services with Natcom Haiti

Haitians to have direct access to their Favorite Celebrities

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and New Providence, NJ, Tuesday, 8th November 2016: Kirusa, a global leader in providing telecom and social media solutions, today announced the launch of its popular social media services, InstaVoice® Celeb, and InstaVoice Sports, with Natcom, a leading telecom carrier in Haiti.

InstaVoice Celeb is a unique service that brings celebrities and their fans together. Using the voice blogging feature, celebrities express their emotion and share their joyous and challenging moments on a regular basis; the voice messages are delivered instantly to the fans, creating a “Voice Twitter” like experience.

With the launch of this service, Natcom Haiti subscribers can now follow the voice blogs of Mandy Will, producer-rapper and a CEO of GDPMG; Manno Beats, renowned producer, and artist; Myria Charles, Christian musician, and vocalist, more celebrities will start offering their voice blogs shortly.

InstaVoice Sports is another unique service that provides daily soccer updates, such as team news, pre and post-match analysis, quotes from team players and managers in a Voice blog. Users can follow their favorite clubs and teams, such as Manchester United, Chelsea, and Arsenal, and get alerts on football news, players, matches, goals, penalties and much more.

“Haiti’s population is predominantly young with a uniquely vibrant culture. Football, music, movies evoke passionate responses. For us to be able to provide our subscribers a direct platform to connect with their favorite celebrities is a privilege. We are excited to partner with Kirusa for being able to offer these popular services in Haiti,” said Emma Laham, PR Manager, NATCOM, S.A

“Kirusa is delighted to join hands with Natcom for launching the InstaVoice service in Haiti. Haitians are ardently passionate about sports and celebrities. We hope that our services will be able to fulfill their needs and aspiration for connecting to the celebs,” said Dr. Inderpal Singh Mumick, Founder, and CEO of Kirusa.

About Natcom Haiti

THE NATIONAL TELECOM S.A (Natcom) is a Haitian mobile telecommunications company whose mission is to continuously innovate and personalize its products and services that suit each individual needs of its clients. As a national operator, and with around 2 million subscribers, Natcom has been the pioneer in innovation to deliver latest technology solutions and best products to contribute to the development of the country. With over 6,000km of fiber optic cable, 1,550 base stations (2G & 3G), covering 93% nationwide and offering a full range of mobile communications and entertainment services for consumer and corporate markets, Natcom has developed in Haiti a reliable world-class network. For its efforts and contribution to the society, Natcom has been awarded best corporate social responsibility operator in 2015 by Stevie International Business Awards. Launched in 2011, Natcom is a joint venture between and Télécommunications d'Haiti S.A.M (Haiti) and Viettel Global (Vietnam). For more information, visit: www.natcom.com.ht

About Kirusa

Kirusa is a global leader in providing telecom & social media solutions that enable customers to have a voice and connect seamlessly. Kirusa’s solutions include InstaVoice®, InstaVoice Ring™, InstaVoice Celeb™, InstaVoice Sports™, myGenie™, and a suite of mobile marketing solutions, which are offered in partnership with over 40 mobile carriers in Africa, India, and LatAm, as well as via the app stores for iOS, Android & Windows. Kirusa solutions are built on its patented technology and its highly reliable, scalable multimodal & cloud platforms, which manage over 1.8 billion calls a month. Kirusa solutions are being used by over 100 million mobile users in four continents every month. Kirusa has been recognized as one of Top 20 most promising technology companies by Silicon India, and one of Top 25 emerging technology companies by Smart Techie magazine. The InstaVoice app won first prize at NJTC Mobile Apps Forum. Informa selected InstaVoice as a finalist for the Best App in Africa. Headquartered in New Jersey and led by an experienced team of wireless telecom executives and technologists, Kirusa has offices in four continents. InstaVoice is a US registered trademark of Kirusa, Inc. For more information, visit: www.kirusa.com

For further inquiries, please contact

For Natcom Haiti

Mr. Lê Thanh Bình
Chief of Value Added Services (VAS) Department of Natcom, S.A
Haiti Tel: +509-33-88-11-66
Vietnam: +84-169-230-2049
Email: binhlt11@viettel.com.vn

For Kirusa

Alchemy Corporate Communications 
Anju Makin
USA Tel: +1-973-536-2652
E-mail: anju_makin@alchemycc.com

JOURNEY

 

Inception in New Jersey, USA

 

Invented Voice SMS

 

First ever carrier partnership with Grameenphone

 

Acquired HeyAnita Voice Platform

 

First carrier partnership in Africa, with MTN Uganda

 

First European carrier partnership with Eagle Mobile Albania

 
 
 

InstaVoice surpasses 100 Million monthly active users

 

Launched InstaVoice Ring

 

50th Carrier Partnership

 

Acquired Cooltok and Saya

 

Introduced Celeb and Sports Content Service

 

Launched InstaVoice app

 
 

First European carrier partnership with Eagle Mobile Albania

 

Launched InstaVoice app

 

Introduced Celeb and Sports Content Service

 

Acquired Cooltok and Saya

 

50th Carrier Partnership

 
 
 

Kirusa CEO amongst "Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business"

 

Kirusa processed over 100 Billion calls

 

Launched Konnect Self-Service Portal

 

Launched InstaVoice ReachMe app

 

Launched IP Messaging solutions

 
 
 
 

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