1. ORKUT - Social Networking Service
Spice brings you the leading Social Networking Service ‘Orkut’ just on your finger tips. With this you can be in touch with your friends & family, anytime anywhere through simple text messaging features at a very nominal rate. Now just receive immediate notifications on your registered mobile, whenever any of your orkut friends sends you a scrap and not only this you can also reply to the sender or scrap to any of your orkut friends, instantly.
How to use the services:
- To access Orkut services on SMS, subscribers need to first register their mobile phone numbers on the Orkut website www.orkut.co.in
- Further, subscribers need to send required SMS commands given below from their respective mobile phone to SMS short code 56555.
| Service Details
| SMS Commands to be send to 56555
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| Turn on or off SMS notifications of new scraps
| on or off
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| Send a scrap (message) to one of your Orkut friends
| scrap <name> <message>
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| View the contact information (phone no., email, IM and address) of an Orkut friend
| contact <name>
|
| Reset your quota limit to receive no. of SMS
| reset
|
| Un-register SMS service
| unregister
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| Get Information on Orkut SMS commands
| help
|
Charges:
All Spice Postpaid & Prepaid subscribers will be charged Rs. 2 per SMS sent to SMS short code 56555.
2. Mcommerce Services through SMS
Spice now brings you a service which is like money on your fingertips. It links your mobile phone to your existing bank account or credit card thereby giving you the unmatched convenience and security of paying anywhere, anytime. Once registered for this service, you can pay for online purchases, shopping bills, monthly utility bills and much more simply with your mobile. In fact you can even buy things like flight tickets, movie tickets and other cool stuff on your mobile itself. All payments are authorized by you with a secure 4-digit PIN thereby ensuring complete control and security. To know more, please visit http://www.PayMate.co.in
SEARCH & BUY "FLIGHT TICKETS”: You needn't call your travel agent or log on to a travel portal any longer. You can buy any domestic flight ticket (low cost and full service airlines) at the cheapest available fare via sms in 3 simple steps.
• TO SEARCH FLIGHT: SMS FLY <From> <To> <Travel Date> to 50555 for a list of all available flights with timings and best fares. Eg. FLY DELHI GOA 20AUG
• TO BOOK FLIGHT: Choose your preferred flight option from the list and reply with the passenger name. Eg. BOOK <choice> <Name>
• TO PAY : Simple authorize the payment with your PayMate PIN and get your booking details within seconds in your sms inbox. Eg. PAY <Code> <Pin>
Limitations:
• Firstly, Spice subscribers needs to get registered with PayMate & associated banks in order to avail various services offered.
• Secondly, all Spice subscribers who want to access above mentioned services must have their bank account(s), debit and credit cards with the specified banks having tie-ups with PayMate.
• Transactions can be made with only selected merchants having tie-up with PayMate. Though the network of merchants & banks is growing fast with every passing day. You can now use your mobile to avail a thousand of services ranging from online portals to utilities, restaurants, retailers and much more. To find list of available merchants, please click here http://www.PayMate.co.in/web/merchants.aspx
• Spice Communications Ltd, Punjab will not be responsible to maintain any confidentiality for the transactions made & details provided by its subscribers.
Charges:
All Spice Postpaid & Prepaid subscribers will be charged Rs. 3 per SMS sent on SMS short code 50555.
3. CHECK VISA STATUS THROUGH SMS
Planning to move around the globe but still waiting in long queues to know your visa status in these hot sunny days. Get to know how soon you going to fly abroad. Now get status of your visa on your mobile through simple SMS. Spice brings you, a very useful & interesting service which will not only save your time by not letting you stand in long endless queues outside those sticky government offices but will also help you in finding exact status of your VISA application for some 10 countries (mentioned below) through simple text messaging.
How to access the service:
Just SMS VISA <space> COUNTRY CODE <space> PASSPORT NUMBER & send it to 57333 or 50555
S. No. |
COUNTRY |
CODE |
1 |
USA |
US |
2 |
UK |
UK |
3 |
Italy |
IT |
4 |
Canada |
CD |
5 |
France |
FR |
6 |
Thailand |
TH |
7 |
Switzerland |
CH |
8 |
Belgium |
BL |
9 |
Austria |
AT |
10 |
Netherlands |
NL |
For e.g., if you want to check VISA STATUS for UK then SMS: VISA UK abcd1234 to 57333 or 50555
Charges:
All Spice Postpaid & Prepaid subscribers will be charged Rs. 13 per SMS sent for using this premium service on SMS short code 57333 or 50555.
4. REAL ESTATE SERVICES ON SMS
Gone are the days when one was required to search & call property agents to explore properties. Now with the help of this service Spice Subscribers can very easily fetch information at their fingertips, anytime anywhere through simple SMS service, to meet the needs of demand for commercial / household properties, throughout India
Service Details |
Keywords to be send to 56300 |
For Service Menu |
RMENU |
To get a call from agent |
RHELP |
For Real Estate Tips |
RTIP or RTIPS |
For Real Estate News |
RNEWS |
SEARCH PROPERTY HELP |
PROP |
POST PROPERTY HELP |
POST |
Charges:
All Spice Postpaid & Prepaid Subscribers will be charged @ Rs. 3 per SMS sent to SMS short code 56300. |
