Google SMS Channel In India
April 8, 2009
Google SMS Channels: Send SMS Text Messages to your Group for Free
Google India has just introduced a new product called Google SMS Channels that lets you subscribe to news alerts, blog updates and other kinds of information like horoscopes, jokes, stocks or even cricket scores via SMS text messages.
Google SMS Channels, which seems to have lot in common with SMS Gupshup, is free both for content publishers as well as mobile phone users who subscribe to text updates via SMS.
Families or friends can create private SMS groups on Google SMS channels and stay in touch via SMS without paying any fees to their mobile carrier.
Other than receiving blog RSS feeds via SMS, you may also use the Google SMS service to get news alerts and weather information on your phone.
Another interesting part – you don’t really need a mobile phone to send an SMS to your group as there’s an option in Google SMS channels that lets you can compose and send SMS messages via the web itself. It supports English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada.
Google SMS channels currently works only with with phone numbers of India but they are “working towards making this service available to international number
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ketan khope | April 9, 2009 at 5:14 AM
I have my own channel on Google SMS channel …Its my group from my college.We are 30 users. I have kept settings as only users that i have invited can join the channel & every user can post to the channel..As other users have not registered to google just accepted my request from mobile there name doesn’t get automatically displayed with there message. sometimes what happens is some users send annoying messages anonymously…what i want to ask as i am admin of our channel can i find out that which user has send a specific message….mobile no of that user??? …please reply …