SMS applications grow rapidly in India

Indians are embracing SMS more than ever and probably more than any other country in the world ? Here are some of the applications of SMS I have come across in India, excluding jokes and other routine ones.. Feel free to add any other application or services making use of SMS and not listed below.

• SMS for carpooling on demand.
• SMS for Video on Demand – Dish TV
• Book your Movie Tickets by SMS
• SMS based status tracking on Indian Railway, US Visa
• SMS for Stock Quotes and Portfolio News
• SMS for Romance and Dating
• SMS for connecting and keeping touch with your social networking group.
• SMS based Location Tracking of Cargo
• SMS for City Search
• SMS help for Indian Women
• SMS updates from your kid’s school
• Finally, we have an Indian in Guinness Book of records for sending 50,000 SMSes in a single day.

These are just few I can recall now. I am sure you will append few more to this list

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