STD calls @ 50p and National SMS @ 30p

Yes, that’s right, Airtel to Airtel STD calls under the H-17 CUG Plan will now cost you 50 paisa per minute and National SMS 30 paisa at a monthly rental of Rs. 199 only. Airtel has some really good CUG plans for customers who live outside their home town or have special ones in another state(s). Continue reading “STD calls @ 50p and National SMS @ 30p”

Ever Wondered What are the 2 Digit Codes In SMS you Receive?

Its more than a month that I was receiving promotional SMSs on my GMS number from various service providers and various utility services like Bill payments services, ICICI bank, SBI, Honda Motors but one thing I was noticing since last few days was, along with the company’s name in the sender field, I used to get a 2 digit Alpha code prefixed like AK-SBI, BM-ICICI. Have you ever wondered what are they? Recently I came across a release wherein I got to know that these 2 digit prefix are actually codes using which you can locate where the SMSs are originated from. The first alphabet reveals the operator name and the second alphabet on the code reveals area from where the message has been originated.

Continue reading “Ever Wondered What are the 2 Digit Codes In SMS you Receive?”

5 Free Group Messaging Services in India

Ever wanted to send free SMS to a group of friends inviting them for a party or a function? You keep sending such group invitation using your mobile and shelling a large amount of talk time? Just try out any of the below mentioned free group SMS solutions in India and save a large amount of talk time.

mytoday

Mytoday is among one of the first services started by Netcore solutions which provided one of its kind services and followed it are many other services like Tagg, SMSGupshup, Vakow, GoogleSMSChannels, etc.

smsgupshup

SMSGupshup – This is the service, that brought change to the Indian group messaging solution. Though, Netcore’s Mytoday was launched much prior to SMSGupShup but Gupshup was hit just because of its huge investment in advertising and marketing its product.

tagg

Tagg.in is another entrant in free group messaging solution in India followed by Rajesh Jain’s Mytoday and webaroo’s SMSGupShup. Tagg.in was initiated by another commerce graduate – Ashish Deora who was the founder of AOL broadband in India. Though Tagg.in also tried hard to market its product, it remained far behind Mytoday and SMSGupshup because of the downtime their service faced many times in the past.

vakow

Vakow is a service that you MUST have come across for sure, if you are a twitter fan. Apart from free group messaging solution, another advantage Vakow has over all other free group messaging services is that it used to update your twitter account using the SMS that you send to their 10 digit mobile number. But it seems even this service (sending tweets via SMS) has also now went down as I am unable to use it since last couple of months.

google sms channels

GoogleSMSChannels – A service that does not needs a description. This free group messaging solution is in testing phase of Google and as such tagged as ‘Labs’. Though Google was late to come out with such a service, but its definitely worth using once. The biggest advantage with Google SMS Channels is, unlike any other free group messaging solutions, it delivers the SMSs at a very fast rate and that is not all.. Its the only free group messaging services in India supporting SMS publishing of full 160 characters without any ads in the footer.

Group messaging lovers out there, now its your work to use the above mentioned services and rate them on the comments section below. 🙂

SMSFame: Send Unlimited Free SMS in India Without Ads

smsfame

In the past, we have come across many free SMS messaging solutions, using which you can send free SMS to any number in India without incurring any charges and sometimes, you even have the ability to send SMS without even disclosing your name or identity. (It is useful while advertising a product or so) but the only disadvantage among such free messaging solutions is the receiver of the SMS will get the desired message along with an Ad that the free SMS providers add to make good the loss they incur for giving away free SMSing solution. Continue reading “SMSFame: Send Unlimited Free SMS in India Without Ads”

Now Easily Get your Exam Results Via SMS

Getting exams results only with a few steps is now made possible with the collaboration of IMImobile and National Network Education (NNE).This move has been initiated by National Network Education that has several online portals, providing results of several, central and regional, exams under a single place i.e. its web portal.

NNE have now went one step ahead by collaborating with a 2 way SMS service provider – IMImobile using which any student can request their marks by just sending an SMS – ‘RESULT’ to 56263. Continue reading “Now Easily Get your Exam Results Via SMS”

Make BSNL to BSNL Calls for Free With Special Tariff Vouchers

A good news coming in for BSNL customers out there. Just a couple of hours ago, BSNL has launched many Special Tariff Vouchers (STVs) for its customers, the best among which is the BSNL to BSNL unlimited calling STV worth Rs. 300/-.

Here are the list of other STV launched with their corresponding calling rates and respective STV cost.

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Celebrate Women’s Day with BSNL SMS Booster Plans!

bsnl BSNL has recently announced the launch of a special SMS booster plan for its customers using which one can send unlimited SMS to National and Local mobiles for just 10 paisa.

Initially a customer need to recharge their BSNL mobile with Rs. 50 worth SMS booster pack and then, as said earlier, they can send as much SMS to any number (mobile) or any network across the county for just 10 paisa for one full month.

So BSNL customers what are you waiting for? Just recharge your mobile with this SMS Booster plan and celebrate women’s day with joy!! 🙂

Happy Women’s Day!!

Link: Official Release

Free SMS from Wavetel

Send FREE SMS using WavetelSMS

Popular Mobile phone Retailer Wavetel has unveililed a new product under beta called Wavetel SMS.

The site lets you send free sms messages all over india. – The cost to use this service zero.

We tested the service and it works very well

Head over to wavetelsms and give us feedback about the service in the comments..

FREE National and Local SMS on Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile recently introduced a revolutionary youth focused proposition by making SMS the new voice of the youth by ushering in genuine freedom of sending SMSs by making it FREE without any extra pack or upfront commitment.

Virgin Mobile customers will now be able to send 100 National as well as 100 Local; a total of 200 SMSs free daily after just paying for the first 3 SMSs on each leg (National and Local respectively) to any network.

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Offers revolutionary free SMS proposition without any pack
  • Customers just need to pay for first 3 SMSs daily and thereafter 100 SMSs are free
  • First 3 Local SMSs charged at Re. 1/- each
  • First 3 National SMSs charged at Rs. 1.50/- each
  • Post which 200 SMSs are free; 100 Local and 100 National SMSs free daily
  • SMSs can be sent to any number across all networks in the country

Continue reading “FREE National and Local SMS on Virgin Mobile”

Beware of hoax SMS says Airtel

Bharti Airtel posted an advisory on their website, advising subscribers to beware of certain ‘Unsolicited fraudulent SMS’s’ circulating on the network. According to the Airtel disclaimer, the recent chain of messages informs recipients that they have ‘won a prize and need to call to collect their prize’. On calling the number in the text message, subscribers are billed a high amount (up to Rs. 500/min). Airtel said they noticed these SMSs in one of their circles and are advising subscribers to ignore them. Airtel also warned that replying to such SMSs could result in viruses being downloaded on the subscriber’s phone.

After spam and phishing mails, spam SMSs are making their presence felt. Such SMS hoaxes are not a new phenomenon in India and cash in on the recipient’s incredulity by making use of ‘get rich quick’ themes and ‘free gifts’ to allure mobile phone users. Continue reading “Beware of hoax SMS says Airtel”

Symbian SMS Manager by Oxygen

Well everyone reading this blog might have heard about oxygen phone manager.. Oxygen is a member of the Forum Nokia Program (Premium Partners) and the famous developers of the Oxygen Nokia Phone Manager. well this time they are out with an excellent Symbian SMS Manager.

Symbian SMS Manager is designed to manage SMS messages on PC easily and conveniently.

The program represents all messages (SMS, Smart SMS, MMS, E-mail and others) stored in your phone. It allows you to read Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, Sent, My folders, Mailbox folders content, display basic message types – SMS, MMS, E-mail, Beamed (received via BT or IrDA), BIO (Picture message, Operator Logo, Ringing tone, WAP access point), read and display file attaches for MMS, E-mail and Beamed messages. It also can create and delete custom message folders, delete messages from your phone and move them between folders. You also will be able to create and send both plain and Unicode SMS messages to individual recipients as well as to contact groups.

Symbian SMS Manager works under Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems family via Nokia DKU-2/CA-53/CA-70 cable (for Nokia models), Bluetooth or IR (Infrared) connection, Samsung PC-DLC cable (for Samsung SGH-D720/720S/728/730).


The program represents all messages (SMS, Smart SMS, MMS, E-mail and others) stored in your phone the way e-mail messages can be presented in your E-mail client.

The program displays basic message types – SMS, MMS, E-mail, Beamed (received via BT or IrDA), BIO (Picture message, Operator Logo, Ringing tone, WAP access point), reads and displays file attaches for MMS, E-mail and Beamed messages. It also can work with custom message folders, delete messages from your phone and move them between folders.

The program has full Unicode support – information can be entered and stored in any language.

In Symbian SMS Manager you can find messages by their details. You can create and send both plain and Unicode SMS messages to individual recipients as well as to contact groups in the E-mail client-like interface. You can move one, two or more selected messages between the folders, as supported by the phone.

sounds excellent write .well it does come with a price tag though. logon to http://oxygensoftware.com/en/products/symbian/sms/Default.asp?page=common

friends at Engadget Mobile really like the software means its really cool and its worth the price they ask for downloading the application. its worthy to note the Nseries PC suite desnt offer any SMS,MMS, Email management suite . and beyond that this app is really trendsetting and highly efficient.

if you really want to make efficiency your goal then this is it when it comes to message management

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This SMS will self-destruct in 40 seconds

A new type of text message called StealthtText launched by Staellium UK Ltd self-destructs in 40 seconds, according to The Daily Record.

This tape will self-destruct in five seconds? became a household phrase in the 60s and 70s thanks to the creators of Mission Impossible, and now 30 years later the ability to send your own self destruct messages has become a reality thanks to a new innovation ? called StealthText launched by Staellium UK Ltd.

Whether you?re a celebrity who?s up to no good or a business executive dealing in sensitive information, the last thing you want is for urgent text messages you?ve sent to fall into the wrong hands. StealthText allows you to send a text message safely in the knowledge that it will delete itself from the recipient?s mobile phone as soon as the person has read it ? ultimately, allowing the sender control of their own information.

Until now, mobile phone users have had to rely on recipients to delete sensitive text messages on their behalf; although a number of high profile cases (Rebecca Loos), have shown that this cannot always be relied on.

However, by simple keying in a code, StealthText users can rest assured that the message goes up in smoke, just like the famous tapes scenes in the Mission Impossible series

http://www.stealthtext.net/pages/mainmenu.htm

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