Best Sites to send free sms to anywhere in India

Best Sites to send free sms to anywhere in India - Inside Story

send free sms to India Sending local and std messages in India is still costly and charges any where around 1 to 2 INR. Last couple of weeks I had been feeling the hype of sending free SMS all over India as I am getting a lot of messages from couple of sites regularly. On further analysis and talks with my friends and We found 2 sites which seems to be best from sending FREE SMS to anywhere India.

However They are not absolutely free. It does not cost you money but here is the inside story of Sending Free SMS to India Works:

How these services are able to send SMS for free ?

Actually they dont. They have come up with a nice idea of allowing the users to use a part of message say 80 characters of 160 allowed and rest is used for advertising. Smart move!. So they collect the money from advertisers and we were surprised that one of the site sends contextual advertisements.

Some of the sites allows you to send sms if you refer 3 more friends. Thats another good way to increase the popularity of the site but it does breaches the privacy of people who dont like this kind of stuff. So we picked up finally 2 sites which works on the base of advertisement.

160by2

As the name says they break up messages into 2 parts. 80 for you and 80 for advertisement. So far I have seen this service more popular and reliable. Here are some facts they provide:

Based on the recipient’s location, the time of the SMS sent and the text of your SMS message,160by2 delivers the most relevant advertisement.
160by2 enables YOU to send maximum of 50 messages a day subject to fair use policy up to 80 characters long,to any mobile user within India, without any riders.
You can send only 10 messages to one particular number in a day

Send Free sms through 160by2.com

Way2SMS

This works on the same principle of 160by2, however it allows you to send sms of 92 charcter length.

Out of the 160 characters of a standard SMS, Way2SMS offers only 92 characters to the User to send out their personal SMS. The rest of the characters are appended with an Advertisement or Mobitisement.
Send Messages to the Group contacts with single click

Send Free sms through way2sms

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sampat, April 14, 2008:

yup i knew these sites and how they work, i think provide lot of facilities also…
and second think is there are lot of services also present who provide 160 character to send your SMS without any registration
Corpus Gray, April 15, 2008:

http://www.smsgupshup.com/ by Webaroo should have been in your list. It’s been around for a long time.
Ashish, April 15, 2008:

Thanks Corpus. We will come out with a list of links provides by all the readers. Thanks for sharing.
Jasmine, April 15, 2008:

Very creative…Although it is not really free, but I don’t think people mind with the adv. Very nice.
TechPavan, April 15, 2008:

Dude….. I agree that many networks charge for sms, but I am enjoying sms at 1ps and few of my friends free of cost….. there are many providers like gizmosms, jaxtr, smsgupshup, atrochatro and many more like that..

One important thing I would like to tell you is that there are few JAR appln.s available to allow you send free sms. This would be great if you get GPRS at free and your cell is compatible for that….
Ashish, April 15, 2008:

Pavan Thanks for all those links.

Can you share which JAR File allows you to send SMS for free. I am willing to use that one with my Nokia Phone
Technology Hacker, April 15, 2008:

Thanx Ashish
Madhur Kapoor, April 15, 2008:

Even i used to wonder what do they gain by allowing us to send SMS for free.
Ashish, April 15, 2008:

Hi Madhur,

Nothing is free. When I got SMS from one of these services i saw some ads which triggered me to explore how it works.
TechnoLaziness, April 16, 2008:

Have you people heard of indyarocks…..http://indyarocks.com/
sms, April 23, 2008:

Hi,
I use earnbysms in which u can send msges for free. It allows u to use 120 characters and only 40 characters used for adding their website. It has many features like group msges, contacts, msges report and the main important feature is it will send the msg in ur name. so the receiver will knw who has sent the msg before opening. Amazing isn’t it? try it n let me know how u feel
Jasmine, April 25, 2008:

Ashish, do you know another service which provide international free sms sending?
Ashish, April 25, 2008:

Hi Jasmine, Have you tried http://www.jaxtr.com ? It allows you to send free sms all over the world
Atul, April 26, 2008:

I use rediff for sending messages to ma friends . Hmm Bhai ji nice to see ur articles on Newspapers and hope that now soon u will be seen on tv also .
Ashish Mohta, April 27, 2008:

Hi Atul,

Haha I wish for that too. With our new team we will definetly achieve this, Thanks
John, April 27, 2008:

Hello,
I know that the same situation is observed not only in India but in many other countries as well. Really good solution to the problem, what their offer creates a win-win situation, both sides can benefit from the implementation of this approach. Hope that this can serve as an example for other countries as well.
joelswiss, June 28, 2008:

another i just found out that allow to send sms on advertisement basis is
http://www.SMSKWIK.com

this allows 90 character
its sending speed is also good
Sumit Ramani, July 4, 2008:

Great post buddy!!

There is one more called http://www.mDakia.com

The site allows you to send mobile greeting cards along with unlimited free sms.