Send Free SMS To Mobile Phone From Yahoo! Mail

The new version of Yahoo! Mail will enable users to send free text messages to mobile phones.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007: Yahoo! Inc. has launched the new version of Yahoo! Mail that will allow you to send free text messages from Yahoo! Mail to mobile phone numbers in India, the US, Canada and the Philippines. You can also send instant messages (IM) from Yahoo! Mail to members of Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. The new version also includes speed and performance enhancements as well as productivity refinements. However, when I checked my account, the facility to send text messages to mobile phones was not active.

"We have always been focussed on making it easy for people to connect to those who matter most to them, and during the beta testing period of the new Yahoo! Mail, we were able to incorporate a number of enhancements based on valuable feedback from our users," said John Kremer, vice president, Yahoo! Mail."

Now, with the all-new Yahoo! Mail, we're creating a more social e-mail experience. In addition, we wanted to make sure that people have the best possible Web mail experience regardless of their geographic location, preferences or system, so we're continuing to offer our trusted Yahoo! Mail Classic interface," added Kremer.

A co-branded version of the new Yahoo! Mail will also be available in the fall to customers using the following broadband Internet services: AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet, Verizon Yahoo! and Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet. The new Yahoo! Mail will be available this fall to Yahoo! Small Business Mail users as well.

Both the new Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Mail Classic are offered as free services with unlimited e-mail storage, accessible from virtually any computer or mobile device connected to the Internet, without the need for a software download.