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3 million users and best telecom website of the year – great start to 2009!

Friday, January 9th, 2009

160by2 service has now more than 3 million registered users! This is a really great milestone achieved in less than 18 months. When we launched 160by2, it seemed so tough to forecast user growth. We have surpassed most of our forecasts!
We expected it to succeed, and that hunger for success drove us hard. But we [...]

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We are amongst 50 fastest growing tech companies in India

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India program conducted by Deloitte Touche Tohamtsu (DTT) recognizes the fastest growing technology companies in India. We are delighted to share this news with all our users that “SMSCountry Networks” (the parent company of 160by2) has been ranked amongst Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in India for the year 2008. Infact, we [...]

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Two Million Users – Thank You ALL!

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

On the auspicious day of Ganesh Chaturti in the holy Islamic month of Ramadan and when the Jains amongst us were celebrating Sawantsari, 160by2.com crossed yet another amazing landmark. We now have more than 2 million registered users amongst us! This has been quite a journey of just over a year. It took us 11 [...]

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MyAds – Things You Wanted To Know

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

It has been an eventful ten days since we launched MyAds. The response from the users have been phenomenal. In such a short span of ten days, we are already sending out more than 2,00,000 SMS messages tagged with MyAds advertisements everyday.
As much as MyAds has been a hit among our users, there have been [...]

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Culture@160by2

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Well, we started 160by2 in June 2007 and now we are almost one year old, growing at a great pace!! Thanks to all our 160by2 users who have helped us spread it..its like a virus effect!! This phenomenal increase in USER base has purely been because of word of mouth effect!!
Long back we had put [...]

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160by2 is 7th most visited site on mobile internet in India!

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Another proud moment in our short history. 160by2.com Website is now ranked amongst top 100 websites in India! We have known this for sometime, but what really took us by surprise is that we are actually 7th most visited site on mobile internet in India!!!
Check this link on Opera website for more details…
Infact today 160by2.com [...]

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160by2 – One year, One million Users

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Exactly a year ago, we started armed with just a thought that SMSing should be free. We have stumbled, we have bungled, but continuously learnt through the period. Now one year hence, we can proudly say, we have been successful.
Our belief has always been that “If you take care of your users, your users [...]

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The month that was – March, 2008

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Yet another eventful month went by. Records were set, only to be broken AGAIN this month.
We added more than 2.5 lakh users, taking our registered base past 7 lakhs. But, the real measure, the number of mobiles we reached, has skyrocketed from 15.5 lakhs to 28 lakhs.
And if that was good, check the [...]

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Fool’s day prank and winners of “Take it lightly” contest

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Hey All…
Hope all of you@160by2 enjoyed the lil prank that we played on the All Fools Day!!
All of us out here were thinking as to what can we do to have some fun with our users on Fool’s day! Amongst lot of ideas thrown up, this one had everyone jumping:
Anyone who would log in to [...]

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160by2 – New Look

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

HAPPY HOLI EVERYONE… 
Well its Holi… And going with the festive spirit, we have updated the look of 160by2 also. A new alert category has been added for HOLI, so that you can enjoy HOLI & still wish every one. Hope you guys like it.  :-)
We have added a “Change Username” feature. So, for all of those, who [...]

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