It is always a great feeling to be in college with students. This time, we are in IIT Madras, as Official SMS partner for the event Sarang 2010, annual Cultural Festival of IIT Madras. It was a great pleasure for 160by2 to sponsor an event at IIT-M, a great opportunity to mingle with sharp minds of our nation.We are very delighted to be a part of this colorful student festival.We had a chance to know how much they love our service and get their feedback. Feedback is precious and we are always on the lookout. Looking forward to similar events!!

Here are a few pics of the event

160by2 @ iit madras - Official SMS Partner

160by2 @ iit madras - our booth

160by2 @ iit madras - feedback

Location: Mumbai/Delhi/Pune

Educational qualification: MBA/PGDBM in sales and marketing (any other specialization considered if sales skills are perceivable or demonstartable)

Experience required: 1-2 years of on the ground sales experience before MBA will be desirable (a big plus) but not mandatory.

Personality: passion for entreprenuership and new digital medium like internet and mobile

Soft skills: excellent communication skill, fluent english speaking ability, very good understanding of internet medium, knowledge of web based advertising terms like CPA, CPM

Responsibilities: selling mobile advertising solutions, managing relationship with corporate managers & marketing heads.

Salary: On par with Industry

Contact : send your resume to hr@160by2.com or call Monika Chaudhary +918019672602

Its time to celebrate!! 160by2 has reached 6 million users.

We are happy to inform you that 160by2 free messaging service has reached 6 million registrations around the globe. If its free sms, its 160by2.com!! We are proud to be a part of 6 million people’s lives, helping them to connect with their near and dear ones through sms.

Now as a part of our celebration, we ask our users to spread the cheer by sending sms and sharing about this free sms service. We are sure that our users would all agree that 160by2.com is a name synonymous with quality and reliability. Thanks a lot and we hope to keep this service going strong..

160by2 has been people’s favorite FREE SMSing website… and a lot of our dear users spread the word and this has brought us 5.7 Million registrations and are growing.

Thanking all our users who have supported us to come this far, we have decided to launch our new Feature of an Ad FREE SMS…

Many a times we have so much to say, yet the space is not enough.. SMS being one of the quickest way to express, convey and communicate we have often had users coming to us and asking us to provide more space for them…looking at the business model we always were breaking our head as to how do we give this also to our users.

Launching our new feature of having an Ad FREE SMS is now possible; users can pay as low as 1 USD/month and get an Ad FREE SMS :) . This will for sure give all the users an opportunity to send longer SMS, at a minimum cost.

An Ad FREE SMS would have the same process of sending SMS, the same login details etc… The only difference is they get to send a longer SMS in India, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Malaysia

The payment options are very simply, either send us a cheque or make an online payment! For more details about payment options login to your account NOW

Cheers

new-edge

The response we have received so far on our launch of free International SMS has been overwhelming. We have people calling us from different places in Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia who thank us for how we have been helping them connect to their near and dear ones. It has been a really good experience so far. The launch has also got us lot of exciting news coverages. Here are a few news clips from different publications announcing our international launch

Andhra Prabha

Samaya

Power of Voice

New Indian Express

Ahmedabad Mirror

Business Standard

Dainik Tribune

Gomantak Times

Hindu Business

Hindustan

Indian Express

Mehka Bharat

Mumbai Mirror

New Indian Express

sakshi (Telugu)

siasat (Urdu daily)

Statesman

The Navahind Times

Udayavani

Apart from this, we have also had a great bit of coverage on the online media. Please follow through these links for someof them:

http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20090727/1305165.html

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-81416.html

http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/36154/news.htm

http://www.telecomtiger.com/fullstory.aspx?storyid=6745&section=S176

We thank you for the way you have supported us all the way!

A lot of you have been requesting us for longer message length. Yes, we have heard you and have been working on this. Today, we are launching an application for mobile phones that are supported by Symbian third and fifth editions. This will let you send 145 character long SMSes from the convenience of your mobile phone.

This has not been a quick fix solution to the character length requirement. Instead, we have worked to provide you with an application that shall serve as an interface that shall help you integrate your mobile phone messages folder with our 160by2 platform. Here are some things that you can now do with the new 160by2 app:

Send 145 character long SMS for free internationally to all countries we currently support

Access your native phonebook on your mobile phones while selecting contacts to send message

Access your native message inbox and sent folders to forward or reply to messages for free through 160by2.com

One click solution to upload your native phonebook contacts to 160by2.com - You wouldn’t need another place to backup all your contacts details

Access 160by2 template messages from the app

The interface has been created to match the look and convenience of your native mobile phone message folder. Next time your friend messages you, you don’t have to find a computer to visit our WAP site. Just click reply and send longer SMS from 160by2 for free!

DOWNLOAD APP NOW: Visit http://m.160by2.com/app from your mobile phone to start using the application

Here are a few screenshots for the app

Mobile Phones Supported by 160by2 App:

Ad Tech is one of the premier events for digital marketing. It is an interactive advertising and technology conference where you have established players from the area of interactive marketing converging at one place. It is also a place to showcase your product to the audience from this field.

160by2 will be showcasing its service this year at the Ad Tech event in Singapore. It will be held on the 9th and 10th of June at Sun Tec City convention center in Singapore. If any of you guys are going to be there at around the same time, do make it a point to visit and say a Hi to us. It is always great to meet our lovable users.

See you there!

160by2.com is proud to announce the launch of the Sprite “Kholega toh Milega” contest on our website. This gives you the opportunity to win lots of prizes and an opportunity to meet the Badshah of Bollywood!

There is nothing much to do, actually. Enjoy your favorite Sprite, and once done look beneath the cap for a nine digit code. Alternately, if you drinking from the pet bottles, unwrap the labels and check out the code. Then, visit the 160by2’s Kholega toh Milega page and enter the code along with your mobile number and submit.

And what do you win for this? A Nokia Mobile phone every single hour! The luckier among you also get to meet the Bollywood heart throb, Shahrukh Khan and members of the Kolkata Knight Riders team. So, what are you waiting for? Get Winning!!

It is such a joy to see our website grow from where we started two years ago to where it is headed now. We have had a multidimensional growth in this period. Today, 160by2 is announcing the registration of its 4 millionth user. This has been a good growth story since we launched close to two years back. As we look back, we see that we have covered quite a lot of milestones that make us happy and contented at what we have achieved so far.

But that does not mean our hunger to create more and more things for our users we love so much has decreased. Today, we also want to announce that, for the first time ever, 160by2 is now available in Arabic to our Kuwaiti users. Now as we expand our horizons more and become available to different people from different nationalities, expect us to come up with more such improvisations. All said, one thing we realize is 160by2 wouldn’t be here if not for wonderful people like you, and that’s the greatest motivation for us to keep innovating.

Now we are Multinational (as we are present in India, Singapore And Kuwait) , Multilingual (We are available in English and Arabic) and Multimillionaire in terms user base (now we have more than 4 million users).

PS: The 160by2 team has been reading your comments. We are trying to get connected to many more countries. Keep tuned to our blog as we announce them.

Recently we let you know about our launch in Singapore and Kuwait. Starting today, we have got the users in all these three countries connected. This means that Indian users can send SMS to Kuwait and Singapore, Singaporean users can send SMS to India and Kuwait and Kuwaiti users can do so to their friends in India and Singapore.

So how do you go about this. I hope the following pointers will help you in getting started:

The rule is very simple. For sending sms within your country just type in mobile number, for sending sms to friends out of country enter mobile number prefixed with country code.

INDIAN USERS

Sending SMS to India : Enter the 10 digit mobile number in the Mobile number field. (eg: 9012345678)

Sending SMS to Kuwait : Enter the 8 digit mobile number prefixed with country code 965 (eg: 96561234567)

Sending SMS to Singapore : Enter the 8 digit mobile number prefixed with the country code 65 (eg: 6591234567)

SINGAPOREAN USERS

Sending SMS to India : Enter the 10 digit mobile number prefixed with country code 91 (eg: 919012345678)

Sending SMS to Kuwait : Enter the 8 digit mobile number prefixed with country code 965 (eg: 96561234567)

Sending SMS to Singapore : Enter the 8 digit mobile number only (eg : 91234567)

KUWAITI USERS

Sending SMS to India : Enter the 10 digit mobile number prefixed with country code 91 (eg: 919012345678)

Sending SMS to Kuwait : Enter the 8 digit mobile number only (eg: 61234567)

Sending SMS to Singapore : Enter the 8 digit mobile number prefixed with the country code 65 (eg: 6591234567)

Time to change the title of this blog to include Kuwait and Singapore