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Monday, June 30, 2003
Dotcom World

Send SMS through Net
Vinod Kumar

TODAY SMS is rapidly becoming a popular form of communication. In India, a billion messages are sent well over a month .The young market is important for its success. SMS has gained wide popularity because it is easy, fast, simple and is delivered quickly. The cost is usually low, at flat rate or even free, depending upon the tariff plan. With new information, services and unique value added services are being introduced by the operators such as share prices, weather, sports scores, news headlines and flight information that has further increased the popularity of SMS. It is also used as an attractive medium for advertisement. We are providing you a list of Websites from where you can send SMS and download ringtones, logos and some other fabulous stuff.

www.funtooz.com

This site is worth browsing. This is the first ever site that has been developed from where one can send SMS in Hindi. First of al,l one has to signup for an account and after that one can start sending SMS, ringtones, M-cards, picture messages and some other nice stuff for this site to your friends and partner. Every new user is given three free credits on signup and you can earn one credit each for each referral user. This site offers WAP bookmarks that enables you to access WAP Websites from your mobile phone without typing in the site URL. Shortly, MMS services will also be available here. Most importantly this site has a big operators’ network covering almost every part of this country.

www.nonstopsms.com/india.htm

‘Complete mobile entertainment portal’ is what they claim. From here you can download mobile logos, ringtones, picture massages and can also design your own funky logos by using nonstop designer or even put your photo as a logo using photo SMS. To avail these services one has to create an account. After registering you can send five free SMS messages everyday with the ease and convenience of typing the message directly on your PC and other top stuff. Apart from this information about usage of SMS, SMS marketing and case study is also available on this site.