SMS, you remember it, right?
The thing we used to chat with our friends and convey important information before we had whats app or BBM.
Usage
of SMS has significantly decreased after Instant messengers like whats
app become popular because who would love pay those pennies for sending
an SMS when you can send those messages for free using your regular
internet connection.
When SMS usage was at its peak people used to
send lots and lots of messages to each other and some of them instead
of spending some bucks on every message preferred sending messages for
free using online services.
There are many Indian websites which allow you send SMSs for Free, you might know about them.
In this post I am going to share with you a list of some websites which allow you to send SMSs for Free.
Now before I continue with the list, let us discuss how these sites make money?
Money
is important for everyone; these sites too can’t operate without making
any money. Some of them earn by selling ad spaces on their sites while
some of them sell ad spaces in the messages sent by users.
Normally
one SMS comprises of 160 characters, these sites allow you to use some
near about 140 characters and they reserve the rest 20 characters for
selling advertisements.
So now let us discuss some of these sites one by one.

Way2SMS
was launched in the year 2006 to provide bulk messaging solutions to
businesses but later moved its focus to allow its users to send free
SMS. according to a survey in the year 2011 it has 80% of the market
share in the PC to mobile messaging market.
Quite big number,
right? Well this has made way2sms the largest personal messaging portal
in the web with members from all over 130 countries sending lots of
message daily.
An approximate value of the messages it sends daily is 500 million messages per month, isn’t it great.

This
site is owned by the way2online group, the same company which own
way2sms. The difference in their working model is that where way 2 sms
allows you to send messages only, 160by2 apart from allowing you to send
free SMS it also allows you to take part in quizzes and polls which in
return earns you “Funbucks”. Funbucks are points you earn by
participating and later you can convert your earned funbucks into
different rewards.

Launched
in 2008 this site currently has more than 60 lakh Indians registered
and like 160by2 it allows allow you to send free sms and also
participate in paid surveys and earn goodies.
Apart from it this
site also has a huge collection of mobile wallpapers submitted by its
community and the referral program of youmint is also appreciated. In
the referral program you will need to share your referral link with your
friends and with every friend that joins youmint using your link
youmint will give you rewards and sometimes Hard cash.

This
site is different from the one we have discussed above in this post,
they don’t show ads in your messages, and you don’t need to register on
their site to send free SMS.
Just type the number where you want to send your message, enter your message and your name and click on send message.
Done, though on personally trying it I didn’t find it to be the best and that’s the reason this is the last one in my list.
Over to You
These
sites can’t kill whats app or BBM but still when you feel like living
in the SMS age then make sure you give any of these services a try.