Send Free SMS from Your Gmail Account to Nigerian Numbers for Free

Sending SMS is one fast way of reaching out to people around us. And when it comes to free sending of SMS, I love it!

Gmail now offers this feature of sending free SMS from your Gmail account to your contacts.

To enable this option in your Gmail account, just follow these easy steps:

• Login to your Gmail Account.
• Enter the name of the contact you want to send the SMS into the "search, chat or invite friends" box in provided at the left sidebar.
• Select the contact,  click the  more and Send SMS option respectively.
• A dialog box will pop out asking you to fill some information

• Select Nigeria as country and enter the recipients mobile number in the phone number field.
• Click Save.

A Chat window will appear. Just type your message as you would normally. When you hit Enter, the message will be sent to the phone number you provided.

This option is currently enabled by a few network operators in Nigeria:

MTN
Glo
Airtel
Starcomms
Visafone

When the recipient receives the message, he's got the option to reply. If he replies, the message will appear as reply in chat.

NB:  Google does not charge for using this service. However, mobile providers' standard charges will apply to any SMS messages sent from a mobile device to Google Chat

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