Google has now extended free SMS service on Gmail to India. Google
had first made this feature available to its users in some African countries in
2011. This service is started for Indian users from Oct 10 2012.
By using this service users can send free SMSs through Google
chat. Responses to these SMSs will be received to Gmail and also will be stored
in Gmail chat history just like other chat messages. Yes, this is free service, every user is availed at the beginning with the credit of 50 SMSs and that is maximum
credit any user can have. On sending one SMS credit is deduced by one. The
maximum limit is kept to avoid misuse of the service for marketing or spamming.
When you get reply to your SMS sent from this service, your
SMS credit is increased by 5 and again max credit is 50. So you can get SMS credit
by sending message to yourself and replying to it. Or you can chat with your
friend using this service, so that you will never run out of the credit. Also when
you run out of credit your account will be credited be 1 after 24 hours, giving
you a chance to restart using this service.
This service is available with almost all major mobile operators in India. This service is available only on Gmail website but not yet
on the standalone Google Talk app.
In order to send an SMS to a contact, hold mouse on your
contact from contact list at chat panel at the bottom left corner. Which will
popup contact’s detail. This popup has downward arrow
for more actions at bottom right corner. Click on that arrow and it shows ‘send SMS’ option. Click on ‘send
SMS’, this asks user’s mobile number, enter it and you are ready to send him free
SMS from Gmail. Once mobile number is added chat panel shows mobile icon for
that contact if he is offline. Then click on contact and type in message in
chat window for sending SMS. And if contact for whom you have added mobile
number is online and still you want to send SMS, click on More option in chat window
and select ‘send text(SMS)’.
If Gmail Chat SMS recipients in India do not wish to receive
any messages on SMS from any Gmail user, they can stop the service from sending
them messages by texting 'STOP' to +918082801060. To reactivate the service
they can SMS 'START' to the same number.
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