Yahoo, Spice team up for SMS chat

NEW DELHI: Yahoo! India, an Internet communications and media company, has announced its tie up with Spice Telecom, a mobile service provider in Punjab. Spice Telecom subscribers in 165 cities and towns across Punjab can now avail of Yahoo! India's "Yahoo! for SMS" mobile applications.

Yahoo! India's mobile offerings like Yahoo! messenger, group SMS, mail, logos, ringtones, cricket, astrology, photo SMS, jokes, blink and flash SMS, world timings and a host of other services for SMS will now be available to Spice Telecom users.

The Yahoo! Messenger service enables mobile phone users to communicate via SMS with any of their friends on their Yahoo! Messenger buddy list. The offering allows users to communicate seamlessly and instantly across the PC and mobile phone devices without having to log in from a computer.

To avail of these services, the Spice Cellular user needs to have a Yahoo! ID. To log in, the user needs to type 'IN_Yahoo! ID_Yahoo! Password' on his mobile phone, and send it as an SMS to 8242 and he will then be logged in. The user immediately gets a SMS with the list of his friends that are online at that time.

Almost all the functionality on the PC interface of the Yahoo! Messenger will be available to the Spice Cellular subscriber on his mobile phone too - the user will be able to send and reply messages, add and delete friends, logout etc. Users can also get ringtones, logos, picture messages, jokes, etc. on 8243.

(CNS)