Warid Group Talky is a voice based service that enables you to send a voice message from your mobile phone to a group of up 10 people simultaneously. It's a quick, simple and convenient way to communicate with your group without having to contact each individual. Perfect for the footy coach who wants to advise his team that training is cancelled or for a group of friends organizing a big night out.
Key Features
- Composing & Sending a Group Talky voice message to many numbers in one go. (On-net/Off-net)
- Receiving a Group Talky voice message
- Replying to a Group Talky voice message
- Forwarding a Group Talky voice message
- Saving a Group Talky voice message
Creating & Maintaining Group Talky
The user can manage his/her Address Book Groups and Address Book Contacts through the Group List Management web interface. Group lists can be created‚ managed‚ and updated via the web. All lists can be displayed and numbers on lists can be added‚ changed‚ or deleted as desired.
Step 1: Login on Warid Web site and click on “Group Talky”
Next Steps
How to add/create Address Book Contacts
- Click on “Contact” button on the Address Book Contact List page
- Enter the Mobile Number with out leading zeros. (e.g. 321xxxxxxx & 300xxxxxx) of the new contact
- After entering details, click on the “Save Contact” button to update your group list
Note: You can add up to 10 contacts in your group
How to view Address Book Contacts
- Click on the “Contacts” link available on the Menu (on the left hand side of the page)
Note: The contacts will appear in ascending order (according to creation details) and have ‘edit’ facility attached to them. You can also add a new contact by clicking on the ‘Add Contact’.
How to Delete Address Book Contacts
- Select the checkboxes against the Contacts he/she wants to delete‚ and click on "Delete Selected"
How to Create a New Group
- Click on the”Add Group” button on the Address Book Group List page
- Enter the group name in available field
- Enter or select the group number from drop down menu
- Add contact number from the list to the desired group
- Click on the ‘Save Changes’ to update your groups
Note: You can create up to 9 groups & add up to 10 numbers in each group
How to Send a Group Talky
- Dial *2 followed by group number (e.g. *21 or *22)
- Follow voice prompts; record your message up to 30 seconds
- Press END or hang-up to send the Voice Message
Charges: Rs.3+tax/30 seconds
Note: Maximum duration of a talky message is 30 seconds. Charges are irrespective of number of recipients in a group.
Sending Combinations
- All Warid numbers
- All other mobile numbers in Pakistan
- All international mobile numbers
How to Retrieve a Group Talky voice message
Warid subscribers
- Dial *0* for all new messages (Follow voice prompts and retrieve your Voice messages)
- Dial *1* for old messages (Follow voice prompts and retrieve your Voice messages)
Off-Net mobile & International mobile subscribers
Once Voice Message is sent‚ the recipient will receive a notification via SMS mentioning a code to dial to listen to the voice message. Recipient shall dial this code to retrieve their voice message
Charges: Rs.0.6+tax/30 seconds each for both new & old messages
More Functions
Action |
Method |
Sending Combinations |
Replying |
- Press 1 and record Voice message
- Press end or hang-up to send the Voice Message
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- Warid to Warid number
- Warid to Off-Net mobile number
- Warid to international mobile noumber
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Forwarding |
While listening to a message or at the end of the message:
- Press 4 followed by recipient’s phone number (e.g. 0321xxxxxxx)
- Press END or hang-up
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Warid to
- Warid number
- Any Off-net mobile number in Pakistan
- Any international mobile number
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Repeating |
While listening to a message or after end of the message press 2 |
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Deleting |
While listening to a message or after end of the message press 3 |
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Saving* |
While listening to a message, Press 5 |
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*Note: Upon saving, message will be stored permanently (will not be deleted after the standard retention period of 7 days has expired). A maximum of 20 Voice Messages can be stored in the mail box.
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