This study was designed to investigate the ability of freeze-dried (FD) bull spermatozoa to induce calcium oscillations in mouse oocytes and meiosis resumption in in-vitro-matured bovine oocytes after intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Bull spermatozoa were freeze-dried and stored for one year at +25 ْ◌C, +4 ْ◌C, or -196 ْ◌C. In the first experiment, rehydrated sperm heads were microinseminated into hybrid mouse oocytes loaded with fluo-3/AM, and the kinetics of intracellular calcium concentration was monitored for 1 h. Repetitive increases of intracellular calcium concentration were recorded in the majority of injected oocytes, with exception of a few oocytes injected with FD sperm heads stored at +4 ْ◌C (11%) and +25 ْ◌C (8%) that exhibited a single increase or no response (non-oscillated). Proportion of oocytes oscillated with high frequency (≥10 spikes per hour) was significantly higher (P <0.05) in the non-dried control group (79%) than those in the FD groups (58, 55 and 54% for storage at -196, +4, and +25 ْ◌C, respectively). In the second experiment, control and FD spermatozoa were microinseminated into in-vitro-matured, denuded bovine oocytes. The oocytes were fixed and stained 12 h after ICSI. Significantly higher proportion of bovine oocytes injected with control spermatozoa (70%) resumed meiosis than those injected with +25, +4 and -196 ْ◌C-stored FD spermatozoa (53, 48 and 57%, respectively). The proportion of ICSI oocytes that developed to the pronuclear-stage (complete activation) was significantly higher in the control group (64%) than those in all the FD groups (34, 27, and 28% for storage at -196, +4, and +25 ْ◌C, respectively). Thus, the ability of bull spermatozoa to induce frequent intracellular calcium spikes in mouse oocytes was impaired by the process of freeze-drying, probably resulting in lower proportion of bovine oocytes that resumed meiosis and/or developed to the pronuclear-stage.