SMS GupShup has raised USD 12 million in Series D venture financing round. With this new financing round, the total funding of SMS GupShup comes to $37 million. The new funding will be used to expand into other markets such as the Philippines and Indonesia, for product development and to hire new staff in engineering, advertising and marketing. […]
Airtel and Reliance Communications will not charge more for sending text messages on December 31. Airtel also announced they would maintain regular call and SMS tariffs on December 31, as subscribed to by the user. Vodafone and Aircel subscribers will end up paying Re 1 for every local message and Rs 1.50 for a national SMS. Tata DoCoMo will charge 50 paisa for local and national SMSes.
The Northern Railway had launched the scheme on December 12 sending SMS to about 10 lakh people each day covering areas with high density of unmanned level crossings. The railways transmit four types of SMS currently. The messages are designed to bring about attitudinal changes. They either persuade people to change for the better or warn them of the consequences. […]
DriveSafe.ly is a mobile application that reads text emails and SMS messages aloud in real time and automatically responds without drivers touching the mobile phone. DriveSafe.ly is the solution to texting while driving. It claims to be a lightweight mobile application, which doesn’t slow down phone or drain the battery. DriveSafe.ly can read out only English text. […]
With smstweet.in, a wonderful service recently launched, you can tweet from your mobile phone at normal rates. Just register your mobile number at smstweet.in and authenticate your twitter account. Now you can start tweeting by sending a message, TWEET to 09220092200. […]
Reliance Communications is making SMS’s more affordable to all mobile customers in India with two new revolutionary SMS tariff plans for Reliance Mobile customers: One paisa per SMS plan and Unlimited SMS for just Re. 1 per day. The new SMS tariff plans are add-on plans and are applicable for all Reliance Mobile customers irrespective of CDMA or GSM network as well as prepaid and postpaid customers. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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