Spinvox goes live on Rogers Wireless, Canada

Rogers Wireless, one of the most backward mobile operators I can ever remember dealing with (“Why would anyone ever want to send a text message to a screen in a nightclub???”), has launched with Spinvox today, proving that the team there is perhaps not as backward as I remember. Good news. If you’re on Rogers it’s definitely worth checking out Spinvox as I use it many, many times daily.

Rogers Wireless today announced the national rollout of Voicemail to Text powered by SpinVox service. The innovative new service, delivered on Rogers Wireless network, the most reliable in Canada, through technology by SpinVox, the world leader in Voice-to-Screenâ„¢ messaging, offers mobile professionals fast, easy access to their voicemails by converting messages to text and relaying them to BlackBerry devices, PDAs, smartphones or cell phones as SMS messages.

Rogers Voicemail to Text powered by SpinVox service is available this month in seven provinces, including BC, Ontario Rogers Voicemail to Text powered by SpinVox service available in the following Ontario exchanges: 416, 647, 905, 289, 613, 519 and 705, Québec and the Atlantic provinces, representing more than 80 per cent of the Canadian population According to StatsCan 2006 Census. The service will launch in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba in early 2008.