Aircel group, a joint venture between Maxis Communications Berhad of Malaysia and Sindya Securities & Investments Private Limited today introduced Facebook updates on SMS service to its prepaid and postpaid subscribers.Now user can see and post status updates, comment, like, poke and more from their mobile phones. The service does not require any GPRS/internet connection for this service.
To enable this service, simply go to Facebook and log in to you account, go to Account Settings tab, under the ‘Mobile’ tab, select ‘Register for Facebook Text Messages. Now select ‘Aircel India’ as your mobile provider from drop down menu and select India as a country and Aircel India as you carrier and press next. Now using your mobile phone, send a text message containing only the letter “f” (without quotes) to 51555 (SMS charges at 50 paisa) and wait for a message, after receiving the SMS from 51555, simply enter activation/confirmation code mentioned in the SMS to enable this service.
Now user can post status updates, comment, like, poke and more. To post status updates on Facebook profile, just write SMS and send it to 51555.
