Send free sms to friends with google sms channels

**sheem** · 15-02-2009, 01:57 PM

Google has recently released their google sms channels which lets you receive various types of updates directly to your mobile phone by direct sms to your phone for free.
Google Sms Channels lets you receive alerts on your mobile via free sms to your mobile phone, you can receive alerts for latest news, blog feeds, daily quotes, horoscope , daily jokes, news from moneycontrol, cricket updates and lot more via free sms messages to your phone.
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Let’s see how can you create a group of family or friends and send them free sms messages via google sms channels.

1. Go to http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/browse

2. Click here to create a new sms channel for your friends or family, you will screen as shown below
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3. Fill up the SMS Channel Name, Description, Category, Location and select google groups option

4. Fill out the remaining information and click the button Create Channel.

5. Click Invite Others as highlighted in the image below

6. Now Enter the mobile numbers of your friends or family members to join this sms channel.

7. After filling the above text message with mobile numbers, click Send invites to send sms channel link at the bottom.
You can send messages from google itself by clicking the channel you just created, you can send sms in many languages like Hindi, English, Tamil etc.
This is how you send free sms to your group of friends who have subscribed for the google channel ( shown in the image below ).