It has been almost a month since last posting. All of us at 160by2 have been very busy with a number of things all these days, which resulted in no blog post. So what exactly have we been upto? We have been working crazily to improve your experience on 160by2, and add more advertisers. Some of those things are:
a) Product Development - We have been working to make the site better, improve the performance and introduce new means of accessing website e.g. 160by2 WAP site (mobile internet site). Our WAP site now constitutes almost 5% of our traffic, within a month of its launch! More than 2000 of our users use our WAP site to send free SMS from their mobile.
b) Advertiser Presentations - We have been meeting all the top notch advertisers to present the concept of 160by2, as highly effective mobile advertising medium. The feedback from advertisers is amazing and highly encouraging. We already have a number of big brands like Cadbury, McDonalds, Jet Airways, Domino’s etc on board and are working on the campaigns for few more major national brands
c) Campaign Activation - What comes to you as a simple ad on your mobile or on 160by2.com is culmination of a lot of creative and analytical effort. We work closely with brands to deliver high impact, highly targeted advertising campaigns so they get maximum for their bucks. Our content team has been extremely busy with activation of all those campaigns
We are very pleased to share with our users, few milestones that we hit in November.
- We ended November with more than one lakh registered users sending more than one lakh messages per day!
- In November we sent more than 2 million ‘User Generated’ messages, double of our October traffic and expected to increase two fold again in December
- We now count brands like Cadbury Dairy Milk, McDonalds, Horlicks Lite, Cadbury Ulta Perk, Jet Airways, Moneyline, Domino’s and many more amongst our advertisers.
In a nutshell, we are making great progress. The team here is thrilled by the response of our users. And we want to just thank all our users for being with us. You are the greatest source of inspiration for us, and are driving us to create a viable mass yet personal mobile advertising in 160by2! Thank You! 
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:17 am
hi.. i was thinking of an idea.. why doesnt 160by2 tie up with institutes which sends bulk msgs to all d students - like lecture cancellation, announcements.. i think u have a potential revenue earner thru this medium.. our college uses Vodafone service presently, but if u find a way out, u can tie up with the thousands of colleges and schools in this country (vodafone or such big fish cant manage to reach to so many institutes, so its a gr8 idea for you ppl to spread ur wings and tie up with schools/colleges)
pls let me know ur feedback on this… hope u’re listening !!
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:00 pm
First of all i would like to thank ur team for making such a wonderful site, though many sites gives this service but the sending speed u have, i dont think its matchable.. living away frm home i used to spend so much amount to send msg in punjab o all my friends. but now, u have saved so much money, thanks again and keep this job up.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:06 pm
it is very helpfull to me so thankyou for your service like this type of free sms
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Its very nice web site to login n to send SMS.Its very simple aswell……… So keep up the good work
December 4th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Hi, One Thing I want to ask that Can U not increase the user participation in 160by2 messaging.
December 4th, 2007 at 2:34 am
hi frend this is a very good site
join this
thnks team 160by2
i m rahul
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take acre
December 4th, 2007 at 2:35 am
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December 4th, 2007 at 10:22 am
great 160by2 !! how to find my lost nokia handset pls help.
December 4th, 2007 at 10:26 am
can i meet my sisters staying at usa using 160by2
December 4th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
This is one wonderful thing i came across, 160by2 is doing a grt job and an innovative mobile marketing strategy though just like to add that a refreal scheme cud bedesigned to motivate users to create awareness about this site indirectly benfiting 160by2 in creating a user base of all age income and gender group there by providing more value to advertisers and revenue generation h\keep da good wrk up cheers
December 5th, 2007 at 1:50 am
i m used to 160by2 now…my office work start with 160by2 and ends with it….service level is above the expectation……really nice work
December 5th, 2007 at 6:42 am
phenomenal work!really amazing stuff!
December 7th, 2007 at 5:25 am
Hi Friends,
I was continuously looking for some software or site from which I can send free SMS to my friends, it is pathetic to pay my network provider INR 1 or INR 2 for each local and national SMS I send, where they more or less do not incur any extra cost to provide me the said service. I found 160by2.com today only and have registered there. I am glad to know that you guys have such a good facility because in todays daily life SMSes are a regular part of the game.
But I wanted to know something from you guys that, is there any way by what I can send SMS to someone in Israel (Haifa). The international SMS charges are too high as at INR 5 for each SMS sent. And it causes a big amount of extra burden on my monthly telephone expenditure. Please revert me back on this if you have any remedy for this problem. I would be very happy if you guys can make this help.
Thanking 160by2 again and my best wishes to you, hope you guys become the best in the business and get all the success you deserve. Looking for a sharp and positive response from your side on the said matter.
December 8th, 2007 at 3:03 am
I have been using the mobile version of the site for some time now. The mobile site is simple and fast but it would be even better if there was some small java software or something which you can use to send the messages. In the current system its a but difficult to search for a contact and send the message. Instead if it was possible to use the phones phoonbook itself it would be great.
Anyway thank you very much for the wonderful service.
Vivek Thomas
December 10th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Super!
This concept was waiting to happen. But Indians with open minds are *extremely* rare commodities.
You’ve got the business model right, the people right, the web promo (this blog) right, and the site works.
Now, users have to get the idea right.
Btw, have you made an Orkut community, a Facebook app and groups at digg, bigadda, zapak.com and the like?
@ suman:
your idea is brilliant. hope these guys take it seriously.
SMS can now be *programmed*, so you could use simple text commands to send SMSes to systems to do a wide variety of things both online and offline.
With iPhone / Android craze going around, 160by2 can do really new things.
Has anyone of you guys in the core team been to Japan?
If you were Japanese you would first think of warming up your car engine by SMS by the time you reach the garage.
Then maybe trying to put a remote muster late remark (excuse) by SMS.
You could tell the local kirana or the mall next door to keep these ten things ready for pickup at the door - I grab the grub from my car itself and get going.
You could book tickets anywhere - flights/trains/movies/yadda/yadda.
You could do a whole lot of things that we have not even thought of.
Copy Japan. But slowly.
Don’t force too many things down the user’s throat at one time.
Like a good storyteller slowly builds up the plot - “coming soon” should be a feature on the front page, adding things every week.
Get a thought-for-the-day service.
When you expand to MMS, then, the real party begins.
Put a few public service or civic messages.
That will make you pretty famous.
See freerice.com and poverty.com
See the stats of freerice
Hehehehe … and also keep a silent “hint for the question” message for those who cheat in exams…
All in all, great work!
-o160by2take3
(But take care to see that you don’t spill our profile data to anyone.
Of course, feel free to SMS me as well…)
December 10th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
this site iz a gud combo of ads n free sms, people get a gud page to connect themselves wid thr lovedones…
December 10th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
hi your website is super keep it up
December 11th, 2007 at 12:15 am
I think you do not do to anythig to improve … it is the best..
December 11th, 2007 at 12:16 am
very good service indeed,i have used it the first time and found it very usefull and money saving also for myself
December 11th, 2007 at 12:17 am
It is a pleasure to have such a wonderful site which allows us to share smses for free. Now this is called a tech world !!! But i jus hope that our information on this site that we share & the phone nos. are safe & secure and will not be leaked out to any one in public. THANKS !!!!!!!
December 11th, 2007 at 12:20 am
HAI 160BY2.COM SUPPORTIVE TEAM IT IS VERY USEFUL TO EVERY ONE, VERY GOOD PLANNING MORE OVER IF YOU ARE PLAN TO IMPROVE THE SITE WITHOUT FAILING THE MESSAGE IT IS VERY GOOD IN FUTURE ALSO
December 11th, 2007 at 12:44 am
its really work in my work i make contact very fast and it does cost me money
December 11th, 2007 at 12:44 am
it is wonderful site plz log as early as possible
December 11th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Do you realize the utility of your service when disasters occur in Indian cities? You could help by doing preventive preparation as follows:
Introduce a civic message of the day. This should be one regular message - “In case of a city-wide disaster, kindly use sms only. Please avoid burdening mobile networks on such days”.
If Telecom cos sleep, we citizens should work, don’t you think?
Like Mumbai rains or traffic disruptions or similar situations.
What’s the point if cellphone networks jam in situations like these?
I very clearly remember that web access was perfectly normal on such days. Thrice tested. Email worked, website/forum access worked. So if you start a 160by2 HelpCentre for such messages, it would be useful to everyone.
It’s called Corporate Social Responsibility and you’ll be Sociopreneurs.
Strangely, one must *spoon-feed* people to help *themselves*.
December 11th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Scheduled SMS facility:
Upload 20071225 000001 Merry XMAS!
Upload 20071231 235959 Bye Bye 2007! Welcome 2008!
For best results, get it live in a couple of days.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
hi 160by2 guyz…glad 2 know ur venture is scaling higher and higher.Thanx for adding new features and making the website more user friendly.
Best of luck.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Thank you very very much.You are doing a very good job.Keep it up.Thank uuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
December 13th, 2007 at 4:20 am
@ o160by2take3
the MMS idea could do wonders to this site.. but the cellular cos lobby would try to stamp down on it, i guess..
neways, u hv gr8 ideas for the site
(but i’m still wondering abt d utility of a few of ur ideas)
suman
December 13th, 2007 at 5:16 am
Good Website u have developed, which looks very simple but attractive and help ful to all
December 14th, 2007 at 5:29 am
i give thanks to all 160by2 organiser & developer to make such sites for people its very useful for all businessman & ordinary people.also pls launch ur new sites called 160by2wap as far as possible for ur user & how i creat my blog in 160by2.com pls reply
December 16th, 2007 at 5:40 am
hello sir,
i m ashwani sindhu… did internship there in may-july….160by2 team is doing really good ..great going…mobile version of website is really a good option to reach more ppl…
I would like to suggest that a mobile application can also be developed using j2me which can be made available to download frm site…i think that wud save some extra bytes…as in this case GPRS would be used only for sending sms..not every time for opening the website..
December 17th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Hi, I am very proud user of your site and have brought in number of my friends to your site. I regularly use your free services to wish all my friends. GREAT Work! Keep up. Waiting to see more from you.
Can we too participate with you in developing the site!
Kindly make it simple in the wap to enter the number from our phone book itself.
THANK YOU
December 17th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
the system is very beautiful
December 17th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
160by2.com rocks!
it works and i surely invite my friends to it!!!!!
December 17th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
ur website is really very very good and simple.
December 21st, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Thank you very very much.You are doing a very good job.Keep it up.Thank uuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
December 21st, 2007 at 10:04 pm
a very good job.Keep it up.Thank u!
December 25th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
i like the services u r providing. 160by2.com is the cheapest way to advertise anyones product.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
I like this site very much. Keep improving. All the best.
December 28th, 2007 at 4:51 am
Hi i just want to suggest one thing:
There should be more Filters while Searching on ‘My SMS’ tab.
Like we can search our sent messages to a specific member .
As per now we are only able to filter through dates.
As if i want to Search my messages sent to XYZ friend then i should be able to do that under ‘My SMS’ tab .
December 28th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Hi Friends! This is Nag. We’ve to be very proud by using this site. Thank you very much 160by2.com
Regards
K.V.S. Nageswara Rao
December 29th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Good information…
January 1st, 2008 at 12:01 am
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January 2nd, 2008 at 11:24 am
somethings wrong…messages getting delivered very slow…even as far a as a couple of days late!
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Hi all,
when i came to know abut this site, i thought that itz fake and someone is befooling me……
but after checking it, i couldn’t believe myself. by using this service i keep in touch not only with my friends but also with my family and that too with no expense…
thanx a lot 160by2…
January 6th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Saw the article in Times of India Hyderabad today. You guys are making the front page these days. Hope what was predicted in the article comes true sooner than later and I hope to be able to send free SMS directly from my phone (without internet access that is)
January 8th, 2008 at 10:59 am
what happened to 160by2?!is it gone?
Damn.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
oh,its back on now!
someone in the other post asked for a forum…i think its a very valid point…a forum would be a great addition!
January 12th, 2008 at 12:18 am
really it is very Good website for the GPRS users..the page of 160by2 download within a minute and u can send a message within a minute…i am glad to be a member of this website.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:23 am
i thank its a great move in mobile indrestry.u people are responciable in making the tecknolgi easier
thanks to ur support
January 21st, 2008 at 10:46 am
This is a really fab thing that you are doing. Thank you and the great advertisers who are supporting this.
January 25th, 2008 at 4:20 am
This is a really fab thing that you are doing. Thank you and the great advertisers who are supporting this.i thank its a great move in mobile indrestry.u people are responciable in making the tecknolgi easier.
…………………….Thanks to ur support………………………….
January 27th, 2008 at 1:15 am
SUPER.I LIKE IT
January 30th, 2008 at 3:28 am
its simply supperb special thanks to the team
February 4th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
This really is a good business idea making best use of the oppurtunities in the fast developing field of communications. Can feel the spirit of the team work reading your blog posts. Enjoy working. And thanks for providing such a wonderful facility.
February 6th, 2008 at 3:13 am
this isn avery good and useful site……
FREE word r the very intresting word.and this site free to specially FREE sms……..
February 16th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
A very very good service ….. keep up the good work …..
February 19th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Dear team, Ur done a wonderful service for all mobile users and non mobile users. By taxing sms charge we are really helpful by your team. Thanks for your continuous help. We requesting you to continue this service.
February 20th, 2008 at 4:42 am
ya… it’s good
February 20th, 2008 at 4:47 am
i appreciate
February 21st, 2008 at 3:35 am
it is very good and we are enjoying
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
gud website to send sms…
but length of sms is short!!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
rellay itz a very nice user friendly site and i hope this site will make a gr8 achivement 0ne day.the mobile version of internate..wow thatz cool
March 6th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Really … Very Nice work…..
March 7th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Your website is simply amazing. I have tried other sites, but the speed and ease of your site to send sms is truly superb. Keep up the good work. All the best for all your future projects and thank u for this service.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:55 am
The site is a spark. just rocks. hat’s off ppl. But i would like to have, full 160 characters available. For advertisement, let the site send another sms( with everysms being send)……..wht u ppl think
March 12th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
hi all…..this site is vry nice …. n the registration procedure is vry easy n fast.the idea is great n helpful 4 people like us who r students and who wish to be in touch with our family n frenz in a cheapest way.it does really saves money……
..…..THANX a ton 4 ur effort team 160by2.com.
i wud also like to say tht msgs r delivered very late on BSNL network many times.please try to solve ths problem soon.some times it takes more thn 1 hour to deliver a msg.kindly acknowledge.n plz do reply.
thanx…….
March 14th, 2008 at 2:44 am
This is Best Web site ……
March 15th, 2008 at 11:46 am
yes this a very good site now i can sms anywhere within india…….
it was never as easy as today because of 160by2…..guys try it…nikks
March 18th, 2008 at 4:40 am
hi friend the way to sending free sms to india in short time by 160by2.com only.. thanks to this team.. 9344821180
April 12th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I love 160by2…it rocks..it is fast and kool and awesome….
April 19th, 2008 at 3:29 am
hi! i am rashmi.160by2.com is the best way to ssmsing . thanks!
April 20th, 2008 at 8:32 am
बिना कुछ खर्च किये SMS भेजना कितना अच्छा लगता है। क्या यह अन्य भाषाओं को भी Supprt करता है।
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:59 am
hi friends
this is very good to send free sms.it is very amaging but we think it is very banificial for the pramoter . thanku u all of u
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:07 am
wow wow heeeeeeee
May 27th, 2008 at 9:42 am
fantastic
May 27th, 2008 at 9:44 am
dazling
June 7th, 2008 at 4:26 am
this is good.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:08 am
a good method
July 24th, 2008 at 7:31 am
hi, i love this .
and wanna join it
August 18th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
can anyone tell me , that whether this site pays something to the networks on which people sends the sms.
i.e for e.g does airtel takes some money from this site for providing the service…???
please mail me the answer at shubham.373@gmail.com
December 5th, 2008 at 8:26 am
hi,this a good way to communicate with ouu friends.thanks to team…….