Send Free SMS in India using 160by2

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

After having written a post on making a free phone call using Fring in my post How to make a free call using fring, i was in the process of researching for a free SMS service to send SMS in India, during this, i came across a few services which do make this possible. In my coming posts, i will try to present with you few of the services which can be used to send Free SMS in India. One such service is 160by2 and in this post i intend to discuss on the various features provided by them.

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160by2 is a SMS Marketing service launched in India by smscountry networks. The service allows users to send Free SMS messages through their website. Using 160by2 service, users can send free SMS of 80 characters. The rest 80 characters are filled in by the service with contextual advertisements.
The web interface is pretty interesting and easy to use.

Some of the features provided by 160by2 are:

  • Sending same message to multiple users.
  • Sharing of messages with other users.
  • Users can maintain their contact information in address books.
  • Group messages feature. ( although i still need to test this)

Invitations to 160by2 can be obtained by accessing their webpage here.

[Update] 160by2 has also released a mobile application. The application provides following features

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  • No need to Login every time.
  • Access your contacts from 160by2.com account as well as from your phone book
  • You can now upload and backup your phone book on 160by2.

Related Read: Send Free SMS using Yahoo Mail

Reader Contributions: Way2SMS is also such a service which provides users to send 92 characters of free messages. Way2SMS can also be accessed using WAP. I tried the service and found it good enough. Thanks to Bala for this.

Try it out and share your experiences in the comments.
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Send Free SMS using Yahoo Mail

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Vaibhav

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106 Responses

  1. mbchandar, on October 19, 2007 at 8:29 am said:

    way2sms.com is doing the same job already which i am using. but if competition arises, then it would be good to see how these companies may react.

    – bala
    http://beyondwork.wordpress.com

  2. Jen, on October 19, 2007 at 9:57 pm said:

    couldnt agree more mb. competititon has already started however.

  3. rocky, on October 21, 2007 at 11:04 am said:

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  7. kumar, on October 29, 2007 at 5:00 pm said:

    hi

  8. augustyanag, on October 29, 2007 at 8:14 pm said:

    hello

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  11. Suzanna, on November 1, 2007 at 11:18 pm said:

    checked this out – really works. not sure if the revenue model will work out. how will advertisers be sure of ROI? anyways, i am not complaining.

    thanks for this post!
    -Suzanna

  12. Vaibhav Pandey-->Technofriends Team, on November 1, 2007 at 11:47 pm said:

    Yeah Suzanna,
    You are right. Even i have tried giving this a thought… lets c till how far these services go. As of now, its all abt free messages and the fun of messaging from the luxury of your desktop.
    Chow
    Vaibhav

  13. Suzanna, on November 2, 2007 at 1:26 pm said:

    I am willing to bet on this – this will remain free for a duration. then you will have some limits (like yahoo msgr). or be made to send SMS once in a while. Ad rev is unlikely to work.

    Like your blog posts – keep up the good work.
    -Su
    http://bangalorebuzzz.blogspot.com

  14. Vaibhav Pandey-->Technofriends Team, on November 2, 2007 at 1:29 pm said:

    Yeah Su, Even i share the same thoughts on free sms services. 160by2 though has a cap of 10 messages per person per day. However, i am not sure if they can be successful like that too. There are already many failed models like that Chikka being one. 😉
    Thanks for your appreciation.
    Cheers
    Vaibhav

  15. jeez, on November 6, 2007 at 8:42 am said:

    good work mate!

  16. Aakash, on November 18, 2007 at 2:33 pm said:

    theres always some gimmick with free SMS 🙂

  17. Rupesh, on November 21, 2007 at 12:05 am said:

    Hi,
    I guess you are from Bangalore. If so, you can send SMS to any Airtel mobile number and do a lot like getting orkut scrap notification, Gmail incoming mail alerts, Blog comment notification and many more. To know more visit:- http://fundubytes.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-send-free-email-sms-and-get.html

  18. Rupesh, on November 21, 2007 at 12:15 am said:

    One more thing, you can send SMS from Gtalk too… to know how to do so, read:- http://fundubytes.blogspot.com/2007/09/send-free-sms-worldwide-through-google.html there are other related articles which can be useful.

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  55. Ramesh, on March 16, 2008 at 7:23 pm said:

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  61. Crown, on April 19, 2008 at 9:41 am said:

    Why don’t you check http://www.smssrilanka.com the web site got a page with information on how to send free SMS to Indian mobile phones from your PC.

  62. TUSHAR, on April 22, 2008 at 12:00 pm said:

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  71. mohit, on June 15, 2008 at 12:26 am said:

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  72. rakesh, on June 15, 2008 at 4:26 pm said:

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