Christian faithful on the network of the telecommunications service provider, Globacom, have cause to smile as the company has launched a daily devotional, the Rhapsody of Realities (ROR), to make daily devotion easy and accessible on their handsets and other telecommunications devices.
The mobile daily devotional, will be sourced from the Rhapsody of Realities devotional published monthly by Christ Embassy Church, one of the fastest growing Pentecostal churches with large followership in Nigeria and South Africa, will make the Christian faithful to access the devotional at the touch of a button at any time of the day and in any location.
The ROR Mobile Service from Glo is a Value Added Service that offers subscribers the opportunity to receive Rhapsody of Realities content on their phone via Interactive Voice Response, (IVR) text message or WAP.
According to Mr. Ashok Israni, Globacom’s chief regional marketing officer, the service is offered in English, Hausa and Pidgin English.
Israni explained that the service comes in the following versions – E-Rhapsody and Download, ROR Voice Services and the Daily ROR SMS service.
The E-Rhapsody and Download is an electronic version of ROR in which a subscriber will receive a link to download a PDF version of ROR. Content will be in text format (PDF) supported by mobile OS, Androids, Blackberry, Windows phone, iPhone and any data-enabled devices.
“The Daily ROR is SMS-based and the subscriber receives a text message, which will have a mini URL for more of the message to be read from Rhapsody of Realities WAP portal,” Israni explained .
ROR Voice Service is the voiced Rhapsody of Realities reading for the day. For ROR voice content, subscribers will get an out-bound call daily with content in the language subscribed for.
The customer can subscribe to the ROR voice service by sending the corresponding activation keyword to a particular short code.
Israni said that for Voice ROR in English, subscribers are required to Text VROR to 55515; for Voice ROR in Pidgin, text VRORP to 55515; for Voice ROR in Hausa, text VRORH to 55515 and for ROR SMS, text ROR to 55515.
For E-download, the text is EROR to the short code 55515. Subscribers will only get the content for the service subscribed for.
For instance, if one subscribes for ROR English, he will get the content in English accordingly.
According to Globacom, one can also dial 55515 on the IVR portal to listen to the IVR instructions on how to activate the ROR services.
Israni disclosed that Subscription to the Rhapsody of reality voice is affordable with content costing N35 for 3 days or N70 per week.