STARCOMMS AFRICHAT
Looking for a real time chat and friend finder service through SMS? Then you would enjoy Starcomms AfriChat. Chat with your friends, loved ones and find many likeminded people across Nigeria on your favourite online chat rooms on the go through your phone.

Africhat is a fast SMS based chat application that enables asynchronous, text-based, chatting across mobile users. With SMS as the bearer it caters to the widest possible mobile user audience.

Now you can have real time both-way chat with any registered user, including online MSN, Yahoo or ICQ! Messenger contacts anytime, anywhere, over any phone using SMS. Its features include create profile, people search, buddy listing, chat rooms & instant messaging options.

One can chat with multiple chat friends at the same time.

SERVICE COST:
All SMS sent to the starcode 30805 is Charged @N3/SMS

HOW TO USE SERVICE
To start using the service, subscriber sends R followed by his/her details such as screen name, age, sex, & location. A return message is received & it also notifies the user on tips to search for new friends.

To search - send "FF" to 30805. You will receive a message with syntax & tips to start the search. The syntax for search includes S followed by the age, gender & location. An invalid entry of location returns similar location list or a prompt to enter the complete location name.

To add a friend - The user can add a friend by sending a chat invite.

Receive Chat Invites - Users would be notified on receiving chat invites from other users. On accepting an invite, you get added to the user’s contact list. If declined or unattended, a chat invite expires after a period of 24 hours.

Friend List - Each user maintains a list of contacts, which can be accessed by sending 'F' command to 30805. Each contact is represented with a contact number that is used while sending message to the contact.

Send Message - To send a message, user simply type 'T', friend's contact number & message to 30805.

Reply to Messages - A unique feature is the ability to use mobile phone’s pre-existing reply feature to respond to incoming messages. This means, a user can reply to the message by directly selecting the reply feature of the phone, without typing any command or user ID.

Chat Rooms - A user can visit publicly available chat rooms & chat with multiple users by sending 'CC' command. The user will then receive a list of rooms with number of members in each room & a tip guiding the entry process to chat rooms. The command to review all chat rooms is 'ROOMS' and for leaving a particular room is 'LEAVE'

Signing Out - A user can exit from the application by sending 'EA' command to the short code 30805.