How to send bulk sms on a Nokia 6230 phone

Are you used to sending sms(short message service)? SMS are short messages or short text messages which you can send on your network from a phone. It is like a modern day letter but it is designed to be much shorter than traditional letters. Most Mobile phone networks allow their subscribers to send sms as part of the basic services available for your phone. Phones which are allowed for making voice calls do come with ability to send an sms but it is much cheaper and direct than making a voice call.
Some of the features of a simple sms includes:
- Formality
- Directness
- Quick
- Ultimately reaches the receiver whenever he is available
- A more reliable means of sending an important message
- It is much cheaper than voice calls
- Easy to send

Sending an sms may be cheap and affordable, but what di you do when you want to send an sms to more than one contact. Bulk sms is usually quite cheaper than regular single sms due to the fact that your provider offers you a discount when sending them in bulk. Although you can buy bulk sms credit from dealers and marketers or from bulk sms resellers. GSM companies in Nigeria like MTN, Glo, Zain ,Etisalat and other companies like Starcomms, Reltel, Multilinks allow customers to send bulk sms from their phones and it is often discounted unlike if you have wanted to send single sms to many contacts at different intervals.
I have tried sending sms to members of a group of 20 and found out that it saves me more money than if I had sent it one by one.

If you want to send bulk sms from your Nokia phone and if you are on any of these networks, here is what you should do:

1. Make sure that the contacts you want to send to are already stored on your phone
2. Go to Messages-->Text messages-->Distribution list-->Add
3. Enter the list name. e.g. If it is for family, write Family
4. Click on view and add members of your family from your contacts one by one.
5. When you are done, create the text message and click on options-->Sending options
6. Select send to list
7. Select the list you just created e.g. Family
8. It will keep sending until all contacts in that list have received the text message
9. You can keep the list for future usage. You can create more lists for your business contacts, church or club members, colleagues at work and so on and just send them a single messages.
So that i how you send bulk sms from a Nokia 6230 phone. It should work in the same manner for most Nokia phones