How to Get Hotmail Email Alerts as SMS to your Mobile

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HotMail Converts Emails into SMS Text Message Alerts

June 13th, 2010 Mula K Leave a comment Go to comments

One of the most important thing that a netizen do is checking emails daily or hourly based on the requirement. So for those who don’t own a desktop/laptop with internet/broadband connection, it is an obvious routine task that they go to the cybercafe for checking the mails. Technological advancements made things much easier.

Hotmail users can now avoid going to cybercafes if you are going just for checking mails. Hotmail has introduced SMS alerts facility to all the users for receiving the mails as SMS alerts. Those users even without GPRS connection can also avail this facility freely. For getting the email alerts, users have to register their mobile number at www.mobile.live.com.

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After feeding your number, you will get a confirmation code which you need to enter to complete the registration process. There are absolutely no charges/fee for getting the SMS alerts.

If you delay entering the confirmation code, you can see these notifications

The code you entered has expired. Please get a new code

A new code was sent. The old one won’t work.

Finally before completing the registration, you can see,

Note: Your mobile service provider charges INR 0.00 for each text message received from Windows Live, and standard text message rates for each text message sent to Windows Live.

That’s it. You can now receive email-SMS alerts instantly.

You can reply right from your mobile to those mails that you receive as alerts. But normal SMS charges defined by

your operator will.