IM over SMS by WaridTel

WaridTel Pakistan which is doing great with its prepaid brand ‘Glow’ and Prepaid GPRS bucket. Recently it has come up with another unique value added service of ‘IM over SMS’. Unique because this one doesn’t need GPRS to get on IM. 

IM over SMS is a great way to stay in touch with your buddies on MSN, Yahoo and Googletalk!

This service sounds good and appealing but there is a lack of secruity in the process with sending out your accounts passwords over the SMS which can be intercepted over the transmission. Anyways, the details from of the service are as under:

Here’s how you do it:

1. Just send ‘<EmailAddress><space><EmailPassword> to 1126 in an SMS.
   For example: abc123@hotmail.com  xyz123.
2. You will receive an SMS notification with your online friends (on MSN, Yahoo or Googletalk depending on which of your accounts you have logged in to). 
3. Reply to the message and start chatting instantly to the friend of your choice. Whether you’re at home or on the go.

Commands List (send these commands to 1126 in an SMS):

• <EmailAddress> <EmailPassword> (to login to a new account)
• ON (to sign in to all saved accounts)
• OFF (to sign off from all saved accounts)
• FRIENDS (to receive online friends list)
• ACC (to view all saved accounts)
• REMOVE <EmailAddress> (to remove an account from saved accounts)
• HELP (to receive commands list and get service introduction)
• STATUS (to change your status to online, busy or do not disturb)

Note:

• Every sms to 1126 is charged Rs.1+tax
• The service supports all popular messaging clients like MSN, Yahoo! And Google Talk.
• The service does not require an internet connection on your phone.
• The user will get charged for logging in and out of you the application and sending messages to his friends. The messages sent by your friends to you are not charged.
• To log out the user must send OFF to 1126. The user is automatically logged out after 24 hours.
• When the user logs in to any unsaved account they will be given the option to save it.

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