Everyone knows what is the importance of internet connectivity in today’s time. Companies are tying to provide the better service to their users to attract more and more users. Keeping the users interest in mind, Hotmail is now giving the email alerts via sms on mobile. The service is being provided absolutely free of cost. No charge will be taken by the Microsoft from their users.

Since 2008, there are approx 506 million mobile users in India but only about 18 millions have GPRS on their mobile phones. The users who don’t have GPRS on their mobiles and can’t go to cafe or use internet everytime but has the need to check their mails will get benefited by this service.

According to the company, everyone is allowed to use this service. After activation of this service, users will be allowed to receive, read and reply to emails through Sms.

The company in one of its statement said that this is a funny service and you will forget to sit on your pc for just to check your emails. It further added that the service can be customized by specifying the particular domain from which one wants to receive Sms.

To receive this service, all you need to have is just a handset with an activated number. Here we are providing some easy steps to get Sms alerts on your mobile.

Steps to get Sms alerts on mobile

*Log in to explore.live.com
*Click on the button “Get Windows Live For Phone”.
*In the opened page, click on “Give it try”.
*Enter your mobile number in the box.
* Accept all Terms by checking the box. Checking the box mean that you are the account holder or have account holder’s permission to do so.
*Click on ‘Send’ button.
*After that you will receive a code on your mobile. Now just enter that authentication code received on your mobile to get started.

In the future if you do want to receive such alerts, don’t think that it would be a big procedure to stop these alerts. If you want to stop the alerts, just send STOP as a sms on 46676. For any kind of help, just write HELP as a text and sms it to 46676.