

For Choose a Service, enter Webhooks and click it. In IFTTT’s main menu (upper right-hand side), select New Applet.

Enter the SMS address in the To field after the recipient's phone number to send. Effectively, you’re buying more messages by paying your phone company for these outgoing messages," Google says in its explanatory post. STEP 1: Create an applet in IFTTT that sends an SMS message when triggered via a URL. Just enter the recipient's phone number, and you'll get both the SMS and MMS gateway addresses of their provider. Every time you send a reply message, your SMS credit is increased by five. “Keep in mind that if you’d like a higher message credit, you can always send an SMS to your own phone, and then reply to that message multiple times. “In case the SMS credit goes down to zero, it will increase automatically to one after 24 hours according to the company’s website. Every time the user receives a text message in chat, the credit increases by five, up to a maximum of 50. Google will give an user an initial SMS credit of 50 messages. However, he said that the law doesn’t clearly implicitly say if this is allowed or not.Īn official at the telecom regulator said that sending texts from a computer is allowed under the value-added services ruling and Google and Twitter have been doing it for some time. Romal Shetty, executive director of KPMG, said “only voice calls from a mobile to a mobile through Internet is not permitted currently". There are several websites that allow users to send SMSes to mobile phones through the computer, according to experts. Bharti Airtel Ltd and state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd are absent from the list.Ī spokeswoman for Google declined to comment on the introduction of the service. If youre looking to send a text from your computer, one easy way to do it is through an online messaging service like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Viber. In India, the company has tied up with Aircel, Idea, Loop Mobile, MTS, Reliance, Tata DoCoMo, Tata Indicom and Vodafone in a few cities, including Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, according to the company’s website. There are plenty of ways to send text messages for free, whether youre on a computer or a phone. However, standard mobile operator charges will apply while replying from a mobile phone to Gmail.
