How to send free SMS to MTN, Airtel, Glo and others.

Nothing beats free, at least that is what some wise sage said some time ago. Why he said that I wouldn’t even know. I don’t even know if “a stolen bread tastes better” came before that but I can assure you that is somewhere in the bible (Proverbs 9:17).
The gist is that you can send free SMS to anyone in Nigeria from your Gmail inbox. Ok, she’s got to be on MTN, Starcomms (does anyone still use Starcomms? But if your chick is on Starcomms maybe a free SMS not bad after all), Visafone, Glo and Airtel. Although I think it is mightily lame to be syncing with a “chick” using a free SMS service unless you have a nerd cred to prove. By the way, proving a nerd cred to a woman is lame.
This is a hint – if you really want the free SMS, sign up to Gmail and read more from this page. (http://support.google.com/chat//bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164876&rd=1). I found out that I can sync with others in places like Uganda, Senegal, Kazakhstan, Benin, etc. with the service. Don’t ask who and what I’m syncing with. At least I got that free.

Author: Adedeji Olowe

Adédèjì is the founder of Lendsqr, the loan infrastructure fintech powering lenders at scale. Before this, he led Trium Limited, the corporate VC of the Coronation Group, which invested in Woven Finance, Sparkle Bank, Clane, and L1ght, amongst others. He has almost two decades of banking experience, including stints as the Divisional Head of Electronic Banking at Fidelity Bank Plc. He drove the turnaround of the bank’s digital business. He was previously responsible for United Bank for Africa Group’s payment card business across 19 countries. Alongside other industry veterans, he founded Open Banking Nigeria, the nonprofit driving the development and adoption of a common API standard for the Nigerian financial industry. Beyond open APIs, Adédèjì works deeply within the fintech ecosystem; he’s the board chairman at Paystack. Adédèjì is a renowned fintech pundit and has been blogging on technology and payments at dejiolowe.com since 2001.

4 thoughts on “How to send free SMS to MTN, Airtel, Glo and others.”

  1. I have been using this thing since the day it was only starcomms, then Glo joined. Now all of them. So Deji, tell them, what to do after they finish their 50 SMS.
    In order to continue, you must send SMS to yourself, that way you recharge. At the end of the day, it is NOT FREE!!!

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