BWI: Way2SMS Achieves Five Million Subscribers

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Way2SMS
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 04:21 PM IST (10:51 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Telecommunications; Technology
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Way2SMS Achieves Five Million Subscribers
Adding 25000 users per day: V V Raju

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, Wednesday, September 02, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Way2SMS, India's largest free SMS service provider has achieved an unprecedented milestone by getting five million subscriptions. This allows the Hyderabad based SMS service provider to enter into the big league of web portals. Way2SMS records twenty five thousand new subscriptions per day, which makes it one of the fastest growing web portals in the country.

Sharing his excitement, Mr. V V Raju, Founder and CEO said "Recording five million subscriptions is phenomenal success for any web portal. Only few online players have achieved it but we are the first free SMS provider to make it. Way2SMS has become part of millions of lives by carrying their emotions and feelings. We will continue to live up to the expectations of our users who have faith in way2sms to communicate with their near and dear."

Highlights:

-- Way2SMS is the first web portal to introduce free SMS
-- It offers variety of web enabled services on mobile for free. User can get e-mail alerts on mobile besides sending messages for free.
-- It has taken two years and seven months to achieve five million users.
-- Way2SMS office strength was four people when it was founded in 2006 and forty one today.
-- 3.5 millions of messages are being processed by the web portal each day.
-- Web to mobile messaging besides e-mail is gaining popularity on internet among netizens and youngsters
-- 82 percent of way2SMS users are aged between 18-30
-- The web portal records 150 million page views per month

About Way2SMS

Way2SMS (http://www.way2sms.com), a division of Way2Online Interactive India Pvt Ltd, is the India's largest messaging portal. Founded by young entrepreneur V V Raju and headquartered in Hyderabad, India, it provides users with advertisement funded free, web-based, text messaging services. GPRS enabled mobile-phones users can also send messages via the company's WAP portal: http://wap.way2sms.com. Way2SMS brings mobile-phone users and advertisers together for a winning mobile advertising proposition. Way2SMS has a large client base that includes the who's who of the advertising, banking and marketing fraternity.


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