In one of the post, I had mentioned about free SMS service from Way2SMS. This service from Way2SMS is accessible only by accessing their website. In this article, I will mention a free desktop client for sending free SMS through Way2SMS without logging on to their Webpage.

This is a small and fast desktop application which can send SMS on the fly.

The application is coded in C# and you requite .Net Framework 2.0 to be installed on your computer. The application does not need to be installed, just double click on the Way2sms client executable and you are ready to go.

In order to send free SMS using this desktop client, you need a Way2SMS account and internet connection.  Enter your mobile number and password, type in the mobile number to which you want to send the message along with the message body and hit Send button.

Way2SMS provides 140 characters out of 160 characters for user’s message and rest of characters will be filled with “Sent via WAY2SMS.COM”

If you are behind internet proxy, this application also provide you to enter yours proxy settings. You can save your contacts in the list and import them to the “send to” list.

Download Way2SMS Desktop Client (Developed by Amit Hegde)

SMSLoop offer free SMS service to registered users, so that they communicate information to their known persons.  You can send free SMS messages, 100 characters long, within India to all your near and dear ones. Advertisers are allowed to append a contextual advertisement to your SMS, making up the rest of the 60 character.

SMS would be sent exactly as sending from your personal mobile number, the mobile number registered with smsloop.com. All services of SMS Loop are FREE to air and there is no hidden charge for smsloop.

SMSLoop respect your privacy and in no aspect display or exchange your Name, email or mobile number to any third-party.

Click here to register.

On successful registration, you will receive a “password” on your mobile (with which you have registered). Using this “password and the registered “mobile number”, you can logon to http://www.smsloop.com ,

and start sending FREE SMS.

SMSLoop also provide you the pemium account facility to send Full Length (160 Characters) SMS with no Ads from smsloop.com, with unlimited SMS/Day.  Click here to get premium account. 

Earlier we were receiving SMSs from banks, insurance companies or any other service provider from 10 digit mobile number but off-late we are receiving SMSs indicating some codes like TM-ICICIBNK, LM-Fortis etc. Do you know what all they stand for?

In order to protect consumer interest receiving unsolicited commercial SMSs, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has mandated all mobile operators in India to prefix an identification tag before all application-to-peer (A2P) commercial bulk SMSs which would reveal the name of the service provider along with location where the SMS originated along with the name of the company sending the SMS.

The alphanumeric identifier would be of the form XY-NAME, where X stands for code allocated for the service provider while Y stands for the service area where the SMS originated and NAME is the name of the company sending the SMS.

Take an example of TM-ICICIBNK, this code means that SMS is sent through Tata Teleservices from Mumbai by ICICI Bank.

So from now onwards whenever you receive the SMS of the form XY-NAME, you can easily decode it and know what’s the service provider, location and company name sending the SMS.

The standard prefixed finalized by TRAI are listed below –

Service Provider Code Listing 

 
Service Area Code Listing 

In my previous posts, I had discussed how one can send free SMS.  You might be interested in reading them as well.
Using Way2SMS service you can send SMS to any mobile network in India. All you have to do is just enter 10 DIGIT mobile numbers and send SMS.

Free SMS service from 160by2

Send free SMS using Yahoo! Messenger
 

Way2SMS provides free SMS service to send SMS to any mobile in India. Way2SMS is India’s most trusted and reliable portal, delivering over 120 million messages every month. In order to become Way2SMS user, all you need is a valid Indian mobile number.

You can even send Free SMS using Way2SMS WAP portal, just visit wap.way2sms.com from a GPRS enabled mobile phone.

Way2SMS provides 140 characters out of 160 characters for user’s message and rest of the characters will be filled with “Sent via WAY2SMS.COM”.

You can send up to 100 SMS in a day.  You can also send group SMS with a single click.

Register now and start sending free SMS to your friends and family.

160by2 (a SMSCountry initiative) endeavors to revolutionize the very concept of sending SMS – from a PAID service to a FREE service. You can now send free SMS messages, 80 characters long, within India, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi, Singapore, Philippines & Malaysia to all your near and dear.

Click here to register. On successful registration, you shall receive a “password” on your mobile (with which you have registered). Using this “password” and the registered ” username”, you can logon to http://www.160by2.com and start sending FREE SMS.

160by2 allows YOU to send Free SMS up to 80 characters long. Advertisers are allowed to append a contextual advertisement to your SMS, making up the rest of the 80 characters.

This is a completely automated process with no human intervention, so chances of personal SMS read by 160by2 is very rare.

Each user can send 50 messages in a day. One can send only 10 messages to one particular number in a day.

160by2 also provide quick SMS templates from various categories like Love, Birthday, Good Night and so on.

If you are Yahoo! Messenger user and interested in sending free SMS to your friend’s mobile phone who are residing in any of these countries, Yahoo! Messenger will do it for you.

The following wireless carriers (listed with their carrier short codes) are supported and good-to-go:

Canada: Rogers — 92466000
India: BPL, VODAFONE, AIRTEL, RELIANCE, RELIANCE CDMA, BSNL, MTNL, AIRCEL, IDEA, SPICE, BPL — ALL: 58242
Indonesia: Excelcom — 9246, Hutch3 — 92466, Indosat — 946, Telkomsel — 4246
Kuwait: Wataniya — 1411
Malaysia: Digi — 32235, Maxis — 32235, Celcom — 22235
Pakistan: Mobilink — 171
Phillipines: Smart — 62580, Globe — 2258
Thailand: DTAC — 192466, AIS — 4508040
United States: ATT, Verizon, Virgin, Sprint, Nextel (including Sprint), T-mobile, Alltel — ALL: 92466
Vietnam: Mobifone, Vinaphone, Viettel, HT Mobile, Evn Telecom, Sfone — ALL: 8269

To continue receiving SMS from you, the mobile user needs to reply to at least one of the three SMS sent by you from your Yahoo! Messenger. Each message can contain up to 148 characters. The recipient will also receive following SMS from Yahoo! Instructing to reply in order to continue the conversation “A Yahoo! user is trying to SMS you. When it arrives, select ‘Reply’ to continue the conversation”

Let me illustrate how to send SMS Text Message from Yahoo! Messenger.

To send SMS from Yahoo messenger download the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger and follow the steps given below.

There are three ways to start a text message. (Choose what’s easiest!)

- Click the “Actions” menu in Yahoo! Messenger and select ”Send an SMS Message”.

- Right-click the contact from the Messenger List and select Send an SMS Message.

- Click the text message icon in the address book.

Now enter your friend’s mobile phone number. Make sure you add the country code for International numbers.

Country codes:
USA +1
Canada +1
India +91
Singapore +65
Thailand +66
Malaysia +60
Philippines +63

Type your message and click Send.