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160by2 @ IIT-Madras

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

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 [...]

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Send Longer SMS From your Mobile Phone Using 160by2 App

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

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 [...]

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Multinational, Multilingual and a Multimillion Userbase!

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

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 [...]

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Sending Free SMS Using 160by2 – What You Need To Know

Monday, May 11th, 2009

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 [...]

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160by2 goes global – reaches KUWAIT

Monday, April 27th, 2009

That one thing we had been fervently working on, and what you had always been asking for is now here! 160by2 has taken its first steps towards becoming an international website! Starting 26th February – the Liberation Day of Kuwait, 160by2 opened its registrations to Kuwaiti users. That also means that our existing users from [...]

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160by2 Now In Singapore!

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Great news from the 160by2 team here at Hyderabad. We are spreading our wings further and are now launching our free SMS service in Singapore! Here on, our users in Singapore users can send SMS inside Singapore and also to their friends in India. But those Indian users who want to send SMS to their [...]

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The IPL Carnival is Back!

Friday, April 17th, 2009

The most awaited event of the year is here. IPL 2009 kicks off in South Africa in a few hours from now. As die hard lovers of the game ourselves, we are launching an IPL section for the cricket lovers on 160by2. Check the IPL schedule, browse through the various facts and trivia of the [...]

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First time ever in the history of WAP – Arabic SMS

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Close on the heels of setting our footprints outside India in Kuwait comes another exciting landmark from our 160by2 team. You can now send SMSes in not only English, but launching as we are talking, in Arabic as well! It is said that necessity is the mother of invention, and when we decided to get [...]

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160by2 Mobile – Look Up Who’s Online and View Member Profile!

Friday, March 20th, 2009

There are two exciting updates from our WAP site for our users on mobile Internet. We hope this will make you take the contacts facility at our site to the next level.
The first one is the new Who’s Online feature. Want to casually ‘SMS chat’ with your friend but don’t want to disturb someone busy? [...]

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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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