What is google sms channel?

Google SMS Channels allows you to Send SMS Text Messages to your Group for Free. Google sms channel allows 160 characters for sending.

Google India has introduced a free SMS sending service called Google SMS Channels that lets you subscribe to news alerts, website or blog updates and other kinds of information transfer like horoscopes, jokes, stocks or even cricket scores via SMS text messages to the indian mobiles.

If you are situated in India and like to subscribe to this site on your mobile phone via SMS, please join the Starnetnews SMS channel on Google. You don’t pay anything to send or receive SMS messages using Google SMS Channels.

Families or friends can create private SMS groups on Google SMS channels and stay in touch via SMS without paying any fees to their mobile carrier.

Google SMS Channel uses the normal mobile number 09870807070, and not the premium short codes. So any SMS charge you incur is as low as you sending an SMS to your friend. There is no charge for receiving the updates from this number.

SMS tariff charges may apply when you configure the service or publish to a channel using a mobile phone. Most of you don’t do this unless you want to start a new channel.

You can use the service on the website or via your mobile phone.

How do I Use SMS Channel from my Mobile Phone?

Create a Channel under google SMS channel

To create a channel using phone, send the following SMS to 09870807070:

CREATE

The Channel name should be minimum 8 characters long. We have created a channel for news.eface.in using the format

CREATE starnetnews Updates from NEWS.EFACE.IN on current news updates in India.

This creates a public channel with name starnetnews.

Modify Channel

You can change the properties by using the MODIFY command as below:

* To make the channel “private” (only allow people to subscribe by invitation by the owner) send the following SMS to 09870807070: MODIFY PRI
* To make a channel “public”, send the following SMS to 09870807070: MODIFY PUB
* To make channel publish privilege limited (only the owner can publish), send the following SMS to 09870807070: MODIFY PRISEND
* To allow all subscribers to publish to a channel send the following SMS to 09870807070: MODIFY PUBSEND

How to Search for another channel?

To search for a channel SMS SEARCH to 09870807070. You’ll be sent up to 3 channels matching your keyword(s) over SMS. To see more channels, you can reply MORE
Subscribe to a Channel

Send an SMS ON to 09870807070. is the name of the channel.

To subscribe to the NEWS.EFACE.IN news update channel, you would send the following SMS to 09870807070:

ON starnetnews

You’ll receive a confirmation message and the last message posted on the channel to confirm your subscription.
Control Maximum Alerts and Timing

To specify the maximum number of messages along with the time interval when you wish to receive the alerts in a day, send an SMS PREF to 09870807070. to be specified in hh:mm:am(or pm)format.

How to Unsubscribe from a channel?

To unsubscribe using your phone, SMS OFF to 09870807070.

Posted on July 9th, 2009 by admin
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