The service currently does not use any form of advertising in the messages but it might be added after the commercial launch.
Subscribers to this service can currently join as many as 30 channels. He would however not receive more than 10 SMS messages a day.
Message senders can deliver the message using a web based interface and the subscribers can set the time when they want to receive the messages.
Other than receiving blog RSS feeds via SMS, you may also use the Google SMS service to get news alerts and weather information on your phone.
Another interesting part – you don’t really need a mobile phone to send an SMS to your group as there’s an option in Google SMS channels that lets you can compose and send SMS messages via the web itself. It supports English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada.
Google SMS channels currently works only with with phone numbers of India but they are “working towards making this service available to international numbers.” Thanks Amit Somani.
To search for an SMS channel from the mobile phone, just SMS ‘SEARCH ‘ to 9870807070.
To unsubscribe to an SMS channel from the phone, SMS ‘OFF ‘, to 9870807070 where is the name of the channel.
to subscribe to google sms channel click Google SMS Channel
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