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Send SMS Tweets to Twitter from Airtel Mobile : Send START to 53000

Twitter has partnered with Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India, to allow the Indians to send tweets at the standard SMS rates and receive tweets for free. The SMS deal helps mobile phone users who does not have wireless Internet or data plans. To try Twitter in your Airtel mobile phone, send START to 53000. Read full story »

Sree Pillai|October 15th, 2009|Category: SMS|1 Comment, Add Yours!

SMS in Indian Languages Soon – Thanks to CEWiT’s 7-bit Encoding

Centre for Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT) has developed a 7-bit encoding technology, which will allow SMS to be send in 22 Indian languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi and Assamese. Further, text messages can be transliterated from one language to another. The encoding technology is approved by the global mobile standards body 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). The new 7-bit encoding scheme for Indian language SMS is now part of the 3GPP specifications. It is reported that, cell operators, phone makers and Telecome regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) have agreed to adopt the technology. Seven-bit encoding allows 160-character SMSs in regional languages also, approved by Trai and global mobile standards body 3GPP, accepted by cellular operators and phone manufacturers. Read full story »

Sree Pillai|October 5th, 2009|Category: SMS News|1 Comment, Add Yours!

diet-sms Service from Tata Docomo – Just 1 Paisa Per Character

Tata Docomo has recently announced a unique SMS service, diet-sms service, which allows you to send short SMS at the cost of just 1 paisa per character and no charge for spaces between words. It is same as normal P2P sms but in this diet-sms, you are charged 1 paisa per character and no charge for spaces between words. Diet-sms service is for message upto 15 characters.

There are 3 ways of sending a diet-sms. To send a diet-sms, go to the SIM-based Dive-in menu on the phone, scroll to the diet-sms option under the English Language menu, open it and send the SMS. Read full story »

Sree Pillai|September 11th, 2009|Category: SMS, SMS News|4 Comments, Add Yours!

Way2SMS.com Free SMS Provider Crosses Five Million Subscriptions Mark

Way2SMS.com has achieved the five million subscriptions mark, reported in a press release. Way2SMS records twenty five thousand new subscriptions per day. Way2SMS.com is a Hyderabad based Free SMS service provider and claims to be India’s largest free SMS service provider. Way2SMS provides users with advertisement funded free, web-based, text messaging services. GPRS enabled mobile-phones users can also send messages via the WAP portal: http://wap.way2sms.com. Read full story »

Sree Pillai|September 3rd, 2009|Category: Mobile News|2 Comments, Add Yours!

Pay-Per-Call Prepaid Plan of Tata Indicom and Tata Teleservices

Tata Teleservices introduced a new tariff plan “Pay-Per-Call” for pre-paid CDMA subscribers. The calls will be charged Re 1 for all local calls and Rs 3 for long distance calls, regardless of the duration. Tata Indicom and Teleservices subscribers would be able to avail of the plan by paying a daily fee of Re 1 or Rs 30 monthly and call rates would also apply on mobile to landline and to calls made to other networks. The plan also offers subsidised rate for SMS at 50 paise, for both local and national SMS. Read full story »

Sree Pillai|September 2nd, 2009|Category: Mobile News|10 Comments, Add Yours!

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