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SMS 56877 launches Laxmi Mantra Service in Reliance Mobile, India

Definition of the Service :

Lakshmi is the goddess of light, beauty, good fortune and wealth. To please Goddess Laxmi and bring prosperity in your life, we bring some mantras for you. These Mantras are for abundance in wealth, strength and wisdom.

Benefits of these Mantras:

Physical – to energize the system (to tone up the system)
Mental – to remove depression/obstacles/mental blocks.
Spiritual – Attaining Siddhi, self-development/specific areas of growth(strengthening the inner-personality by projecting positive powers inwards; over-coming/eliminating negative traits).
Improving the financial situation

End User Pricing:

End User pricing will be Rs 3/- per SMS.
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New Short Code in RCOM

There was a new short code “56877″ launched in RCOM GSM, CDMA and RTL networks on 15th of July 2009. I want to write about this because of some unique services they are providing through “56877″

Following are some of the new services and how it works:

1. Know your personality from your name – Users can know about their personality from the first name. As reports from the service provider they use an algorithm to find out the personality of a person from the name. To avail this service people have RELIANCE number should type “NAME” leave a space, then type the First Name and send to 56877.

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What SMS Can Do!

SMS ( Short Messaging Service) has been very popular in the world! With SMS you can many things! Here is a list to do with SMS:-

1. Exchange Message
Oldest use! Called party is unreachable, not taking your call, just disconnecting your call, send SMS! At least you are sure you had sent a message, on record. Exchange pleasantries!
2. Advertising
Yes, you can do SMS advertising to promote your product! Huh, why advertise on SMS ? Ask any person who reads news paper that how many of them remember advertisements in the morning news paper! But if you get an SMS, you read once! maybe you delete that, but you at least see the sender!
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Should be promotional SMS banned?

I was browsing through a community and came across this issue. I should tell you about some promotional SMS facts. Promotional SMS are targeted to cell phone users for better interaction with the people. It reaches to the masses instantly and hence the business houses nowadays prefer promotional SMS than print ads.

I saw many times people shouting at the Mobile Service Provider for sending promotional SMS to their handset trying to sell something. But guys its not the Mobile Service Providers, there are lots of companies in india who does promotional SMS in both legal and illegal ways. For sending a promotional SMS that company has to be registered with Telecom Regulatory Authority of India for that particular service provider. And if he is not registered he is not authorized to send promotional SMS.

Now how to find out who has sent the SMS? Continue reading →

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SMS Value Added Service

A Normal SMS sent from one mobile subscriber to another. The operator charges it as per its SMS tariff. There is one more SMS that user can use for, that is get some information like current cricket score, news, result etc. Normally this kind of SMS is sent to a SMS shortcode like 56877 and user gets desired information. This kind of SMS is charged premium and this is called SMS value added service!

There are many VAS SMS shortcode now in India across many operators! We will list them and discuss about them later! Normally the VAS SMS Short Code owner and operator is different from the Mobile Operator. They are different companies and they tie up with Mobile Service provider to operate the SMS short code. Continue reading →

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