In this last decade there has been significant growth of mobile users in India. Do you know what is the total number of mobile users in India ? Currently there are about 201.29 million mobile phone users in India. So there is no doubt that mobile market in India is growing at a faster rate as compared to growth of number of internet users. After watching and analyzing the speed with which the mobile market is rapidly increasing as compared to the internet market, US Internet giant AOL has launched free SMS service in India. With the help of this service Indian AOL users can now send free instant messages and SMS to mobile phones in India from the AOL Mail or AOL Messenger service, they can also respond to those messages instantly through their mobile. Most of the mobile service providers like Airtel, Aircel, Vodafone, Spice and MTNL are supporting this new feature of AOL.

Now Indian AOL users will be able to interact with a mobile phone using their computers or laptops. Isn’t it great ? You can now send SMS and instant messages free to mobile phones from AOL Messenger or AOL Mail. Many people think that Yahoo was the first company to launch chat messenger. But this is not correct. Actually, AOL was the first Internet company in the world which started Instant Messenger services known as AIM. Today, AOL has about 67 million users for its messenger service.