{"id":2700,"date":"2012-10-11T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T08:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2012-10-11T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T09:02:47","slug":"send-free-sms-in-india-through-gmail-sms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/send-free-sms-in-india-through-gmail-sms\/","title":{"rendered":"Send Free SMS in India With Gmail SMS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a good news from Google to all you gmail users! Did you know that you can now send text messages (SMS) to your friends directly from your Gmail account for free? The service was first launched in the United States back in 2006. Now after 6 years Google is finally extending its free SMS service to Indian users along with 51 other countries.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/project-glass-googles-latest-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google\u2019s eyeglasses for the future<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the Gmail SMS service, users can <strong>send \u00a0free SMS in India<\/strong>. You can send text messages to your friend\u2019s mobile phone using the Gmail chat client and the reply to your SMS will be shown in the Chat window. The conversations can be stored in your Chat history just like your regular chats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google&#8217;s free SMS India<\/strong> was activated on October 10 and is available through eight major mobile service operators in the country which include Aircel, Idea, Loop Mobile, MTS, Reliance, Tata DoCoMo, Tata indicom and Vodafone (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal &amp; Andaman and Nicobar, Assam, North East).<\/p>\n<h3><strong>SMS credit in Chat<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Google has also introduced a credit system which will limit the number of text messages that you&#8217;re able to send to a mobile phone. Because Google doesn\u2019t want anyone to misuse its free SMS service for, spamming or marketing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With the SMS credit, you are given a credit of 50 Messages initially.<\/li>\n<li>Your credit will decrease by 1, every time you send a message.<\/li>\n<li>When you get a reply in chat, your credit will increase by 5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If at any point, your credit reaches zero, just wait for 24Hours and it will be back up to 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; If you need more message credits, just send an SMS to your own phone and reply to that message. You can reply to the same message multiple times and every time you reply you will get 5 credits. Repeat till you get enough credits.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>How to send free SMS using your Gmail<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Logon to your Gmail account and enter you contacts name using the \u2018Search or invite friends\u2019 box in the chat client.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2715\" title=\"send sms free in india step 1\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2012\/10\/send-sms-free-in-india-step-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"277\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Click on the Send SMS option that is shown to the right of your contact\u2019s name. Or, if you have already opened the Chat window for this contact, just click Options, and select Send SMS.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2716\" title=\"send sms free in india step 2\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2012\/10\/send-sms-free-in-india-step-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"267\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Enter your contact&#8217;s phone number in the \u2018Send SMS messages to this number\u2019 field and click &#8216;Save&#8217;.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2719\" title=\"send sms free in india step 3\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2012\/10\/send-sms-free-in-india-step-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"281\" \/><\/li>\n<li>A chat window will appear and type the message you want to send and hit enter. Your message will be delivered to your contacts mobile phone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you do not want to receive SMS from a Gmail user, you can block the sender by replying the message with the word &#8216;BLOCK\u2019. Later if you wish to receive messages, you can unblock the sender by replying &#8216;UNBLOCK&#8217;. If you don\u2019t want to get any messages sent from any Gmail user, you can stop the service by sending &#8216;STOP&#8217; to +918082801060 .To reactivate this feature, you can SMS &#8216;START&#8217; to the same number.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> Gmail SMS feature<\/strong> is not yet available on the Google Talk app. With Google&#8217;s SMS Chat service, you can <strong>send free SMS in India<\/strong>, but replying to Gmail SMS from your mobile phone will cost standard SMS charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a good news from Google to all you gmail users! Did you know that you can now send text messages (SMS) to your friends directly from your Gmail account for free? The service was first launched in the United States back in 2006. Now after 6 years Google is finally extending its free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":2701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,75,5],"tags":[460],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-google","category-technology","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}