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Celebrate Diwali with WAY2SMS

October 14th, 2009

Diwali is one of the most important festivals of Hindus and celebrated with lots of enthusiasm and happiness throughout India. It is the ‘Festival of Light’, where lights and lamps signify the victory of good over evil, within as well as around every human being. On this day, people exchange gifts,sweets with their near and dear ones, fires crackers and wishes others.

Spread the feeling of Love and togetherness on this festival of diwali to all your loved ones via WAY2SMS DIWALI SMS.Way2SMS gears up with lovely collection Diwali messages and greetings for wishing your friends and family members on Diwali day.

Celebrate Diwali
WAY2SMS Team

SMS Greetings @ Way2SMS

October 13th, 2009

WAY2SMS fans have been requesting SMS greetings for a while.Finally, we have rolled out ‘SMS greetings’ today. You can see a new menu item appearing adjacent to standard menu items.

This section features powerful collection of predefined messages on almost all major categories. We hope this section will satisfy your regular/ special messaging needs. We also keep adding hundreds of new messages every day to this collection.

Enjoy SMSing!!!

You don’t like mail alerts for spam or automated mails. Neither do we.

October 7th, 2009

Do not waste time with junk mail alerts and unwanted messages. WAY2SMS blocks spam/automated/invitation/promotional mail alerts before it gets in to your mobile as alert. WAY2SMS uses its in house innovative techniques to fight against the spam mail alerts and alerts for unwanted or automated mails.  You get a lot of emails, some good (from friends, family,professional,business  even favorite interests that you’ve added to your Address Book), and a lot of not-so-important emails (special offers, newsletters, invitations, emails you rarely read). our newly launched WAY2SMS alert blocker separates the important emails from everything else, And important mails will always be alerted.For example, Way2SMS blocks email alerts for orkut invitations, facebook invitations etc.,.

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Above all,  YOU can even block alerts for  such “Not-so-important” emails. If an unwanted email alert ever finds its way through, you can block by placing the sender email  in “DO NOT ALERT ME” box by clicking on  “mail alerts” link.

More control on your mail alerts ..!

Way2SMS Tips: How do i change my password

October 3rd, 2009

The following is part of our series, Way2SMS Tips, which answers some of the most frequently asked questions about using way2sms.com. While we hope the tips we share on the blog will be informative, and helpful to you.Remember that we are unable to answer individual questions here.

How do i change my way2sms password?

Soon after logging in to your way2sms account

Step 1: Click on ‘Settings’ link on the top right corner of the page.

Step 2: Click on ‘Account tab’ in the settings page.

Step 3: Click on ‘ Change password’ button in the account tab

Step 4: Enter your old password and New password , Click on Save.

Done. Your password will get updated. You have to log in with your new password from next time onwards when you visit Way2SMS.

Update on mail alerts issue

October 2nd, 2009

We have fixed the mail alerts issue.Now, all of you can experience the super fast mail alerts on mobile same as before. Lots of people around the country who rely on Way2SMS mail alerts were disrupted from last couple of days, and we’re very sorry. We did everything we could to resolve the issue as soon as possible, and the issue is now resolved.

Way2SMS mail alerts issue

October 2nd, 2009

If you’ve tried Way2SMS mail alerts in last couple of days, you are probably aware by now that we’re having some problems. We know how many people rely on Way2SMS mail alerts, and we take it very seriously when there’s a problem with the service. Thus, right up front, we would like to apologize to all of you — it was a Big Deal, and we’re treating it as such.

Temporarily, we are running degraded mail alert service. This will result in delayed mail alert delivery to many of you. However, our engineers are working very hard to solve the problem and we’re really sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks for bearing with us while we sort this out. We’ll report back as we make progress.

Posted by Way2SMS Support

Way2SMS releases delivery to the new mobile series beginning with 8

October 2nd, 2009

8 seriesToday, we have released delivery to the new mobile number series starting with 8. Way2SMS users can now send SMS to the new mobile number series starting with ‘8′. New telecos have rolled out new mobile series starting with ‘8′ very recently, This made us to tweak our platform to allow the new mobile number format.India has exhausted its mobile numbers in the 9 series and has now started with 8 series.For over 15 years, India has been using mobile numbers starting with ‘9xxxxxxxx’.  In 2003 DoT came up with a 30-year numbering plan, but the rapid growth in the mobile subscriber base, has forced it to relook into its policy and consider releasing 8 series to the telecos.

 

India’s mobile growth story has remained intact, and the biggest testimonial to this is exhaustion of mobile numbers starting with ‘9’.No country has seen 8-10 million new subscribers added every month except India. Go india Go…