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In fact it is not quite free but cost like one cent to both the sender and receiver, depending on the GPRS tariff set by your network. But generally it costs damn less than a regular SMS. This method works with nearly all network providers throughout the world.

Prerequisite: Java and GPRS Comptatible mobile phone, GPRS-enabled Network.

First of all you should visit http://www.cellity.com/en/home.html and provide your Country, Country Code and Phone Number and go pass the image verification.

You will soon receive a message containing a link to download the cellity Communicator/freeSMS program. Alternatively you can install it from wap.cellity.com directly on your mobile if you have WAP enabled or go to the same link through your PC and download the java software for your particular phone. Also you can go to http://www.getjar.com/software/universal/all/Search/cellity and download cellity Communicator for much broader functions like ‘groupCall’ or ‘worldCall’ (which are not free by the way) and also ‘freeSMS’, or you could download cellity freeSMS standalone software which is much lighter.

Once installed on your phone, follow the onscreen steps to register your phone number (including your area code) and confirm it, then after a while you will receive an SMS providing you your activation code (this is to verify that the phone number is actually yours). Input this code in the cellity software and from now on, I’m sure you will know how to proceed.

To send text messages, the recipient’s phone number should be input according to the following format: +<country code><area code><phone number> or 00<country code><area code><phone number>.

Please note that the software needs to be running in the background of your phone for you to receive messages. However, if this is not the case, you will receive a call (which you cannot answer) from a foreign number notifying that you’ve received a new text message. If you have any difficulty in registering and activating your phone number, you may contact cellity Support and provide them with the email <your phone number>@emtelworld.net (all Emtel phone numbers has a default email assigned to it) and asking them to send your activation code to that email, which you will receive on your mobile itself.

Pros: Very cheap and fast. Not limited to the usual 160 characters, can write upto 2048 (2kb).
Send and receive email to <your phone number>@cellity.com or choose your own username for <username>@cellity.com. You may also use mail-forwarding from you other email accounts to receive them on your mobile.
Can be linked to your Twitter account, and you will be able to instantly update your status from your handset.

Cons: Both sender and receiver need to have their GPRS activated and requires the program to receive the text messages.

GPRS settings for Mauritius, Emtel provider:
Access Point Name (APN): web
User Name: <your phone number>
Password: mmsc
IP: 192.168.0.214
Port: 8080
Cost Rs0.003/kb

GPRS settings for Mauritius, Orange provider:
Send an SMS on 8224 : wap [space] «phone brand and model»
e.g for a Nokia N70, send : wap nokian70.
You will first get a confirmation SMS.
You will then get the configuration settings sent by SMS
Save as «PortailWAPDefaut» by keying in <1111>.
You will receive an SMS to confirm that you mobile phone is now WAP-enabled.
Cost Rs0.010/kb

To activate MMS, send ‘mms’ to 8200 (excluding quote).

P.S. Don’t forget to send me a free SMS to 002309774196 as it works for you.

This guide is to prepare yourself mentally in order to stop this suicidal act of yours - which is the ingestion of harmful substances (Have you ever wondered what is it you’re achieving by doing this?) - and if you follow it step by step, or atleast try do achieve everything mentioned below and have the willpower, you’ll certainly meet your ends. Take my word for it.

Prerequisite: You should NOT be like this passionate smoker who says:

"I always think of quitting cigarettes..... but for thinking, I need a cigarette."

First you’ve got to fix a specific date, one that means a lot to you. Mine was for my 18th birthday.

Next step is to tell everyone that knows you’re a smoker that you are quitting, specially those whom you love. This will make you feel guilt somehow if you don’t put it in practice.

Then choose your favorite brand of cigarettes and buy yourself a bundle of 10 or 20, suiting your usual quota. And finish most of it except the last one that you’ll smoke when reaching the time you were born or that at which the particular event happened to you. If you’ve got the habit to share cigarettes with friends or colleagues, don’t do it so that they feel awkward when you refuse them, and tell them the reason is that you’re quitting being a smoker and these’ll be your last cigarettes. You would do this to incite them to remember that you’ve quit and they’d think twice before asking or proposing you a cigarette.

As a believer offer some prayers, with firm faith, specific to helping you in that quest. (You better not skip this step, else I can’t guarantee your success)

If possible, try smoking that last cigarette where you lit up your first one. Reminescence time!

After having smoked your last cigarette, you’ll have to ‘put off’ your cigarette and do it on your palm - i did and it was exactly at 04:15am (GMT +04:00 - Arabian Standard Time) this 22th July 2007! ahemm Well if it’s on your birthday, choose to smoke your last cigarette and end it immediately at the corresponding time at which you were born. (the time’s supposed to be on your Birth Certificate for your info!!) Also, have someone confirm that you really did quit at such time and place - let’s say by phone, to someone you’ve never lied to or don’t need to.

The last step is to keep the last cigarette’s filter in some protected spots and keep it for the rest of your life so that you remember not to fall for it again. (I kept mine in a sterile universal container - the kind that they use in hospital, and labelled the cigarette’s brand, the date, the time and the location) - I’ll post some pics of it later.

And that’s it!
If this worked for you lemme know.
Please comment on this guide - tell me if i’m nuts or if it’s worth the try or wateva!

P.S: You could blog your experience to immortalize your experience!

This ‘piece of work’ is dedicated an amazing friend “L”, who’s been witness to this guide’s powers.