While amount of the computerized mobile phones grows fast, there are still people who consider cell phones as simple devices for phone calls, nothing more and nothing less. In this post, I will present several opportunities to use your basic phone to receive email massages. Yes, that is true, even without smartphone features and Internet access, you still can get emails to your phone.
We’ll start of the clip, presenting three options for the cell phone owners to enjoy these advanced functions on the mobile phones.
Email on any Mobile Phone
Last one was Teleflip. When I tried to access the site, it was down for the moment. Appeared, that the service was shut down in August 2008, so the information on the clip about this service is just a historical fact that these free services existed before.
What else? There is no empty space on the market, if there is demand. So, there are more services, offering you opportunity to send email as free SMS, acceptable on the most phones. Note, that free means that you do not pay for the message send and received to the service provider. But, in most cases, you will be charged for SMS itself by your phone services provider, if you do not have the appropriate coverage by your plan.
With Beltic, you can send free unlimited SMS to USA, Canada, India and many more countries in the world, using your favorite mail client, like Yahoo or Gmail. Just use the following address: phonenumber@beltic.com where ’phonenumber’ is your friend’s mobile number.
MyCell is offering a different service. It allows you to sign for free email address at their domain, and while it is created, all the emails sent to this address will be directed to your cell phone. The big disadvantage is need to tell your friends the new email address, as your phone number would be insufficient to send you email through this service.
Verizon users can register an alias at vtext.com to give out instead of their phone number. Both alias@vtext.com and phone_number@vtext.com will be valid addresses for the phone.
But, probably, the easiest way to send email to your friend’s cell phone is using the free Email-to-SMS from the mobile phone carriers, but you need to know your friend’s mobile service provider to do so.
There is a table below, listing free email to SMS gateways for different carriers. You can use as quick reference both for US and international mobile numbers.
Free Email To SMS Gateways (Major US Carriers)
| Carrier | Email to SMS Gateway |
Alltel | [10-digit phone number]@message.alltel.com Example: 1234567890@message.alltel.com |
AT&T (formerly Cingular) | [10-digit phone number]@txt.att.net [10-digit phone number]@mms.att.net (MMS) [10-digit phone number]@cingularme.com Example: 1234567890@txt.att.net |
Boost Mobile | [10-digit phone number]@myboostmobile.com Example: 1234567890@myboostmobile.com |
Nextel (now Sprint Nextel) | [10-digit telephone number]@messaging.nextel.com Example: 1234567890@messaging.nextel.com |
Sprint PCS (now Sprint Nextel) | [10-digit phone number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com [10-digit phone number]@pm.sprint.com (MMS) Example: 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com |
T-Mobile | [10-digit phone number]@tmomail.net Example: 1234567890@tmomail.net |
US Cellular | [10-digit phone number]email.uscc.net (SMS) [10-digit phone number]@mms.uscc.net (MMS) Example: 1234567890@email.uscc.net |
Verizon | [10-digit phone number]@vtext.com [10-digit phone number]@vzwpix.com (MMS) Example: 1234567890@vtext.com |
Virgin Mobile USA | [10-digit phone number]@vmobl.com Example: 1234567890@vmobl.com |
Free Email To SMS Gateways (International + Smaller US)
| Carrier | Email to SMS Gateway |
7-11 Speakout (USA GSM) | number@cingularme.com |
Airtel (Karnataka, India) | number@airtelkk.com |
Airtel Wireless (Montana, USA) | number@sms.airtelmontana.com |
Alaska Communications Systems | number@msg.acsalaska.com |
Aql | number@text.aql.com |
AT&T Enterprise Paging | number@page.att.net |
BigRedGiant Mobile Solutions | number@tachyonsms.co.uk |
Bell Mobility & Solo Mobile (Canada) | number@txt.bell.ca |
BPL Mobile (Mumbai, India) | number@bplmobile.com |
Cellular One (Dobson) | number@mobile.celloneusa.com |
Cingular (Postpaid) | number@cingularme.com |
Centennial Wireless | number@cwemail.com |
Cingular (GoPhone prepaid) | number@cingularme.com (SMS) |
Claro (Brasil) | number@clarotorpedo.com.br |
Claro (Nicaragua) | number@ideasclaro-ca.com |
Comcel | number@comcel.com.co |
Cricket | number@sms.mycricket.com (SMS) |
CTI | number@sms.ctimovil.com.ar |
Emtel (Mauritius) | number@emtelworld.net |
Fido (Canada) | number@fido.ca |
General Communications Inc. | number@msg.gci.net |
Globalstar (satellite) | number@msg.globalstarusa.com |
Helio | number@messaging.sprintpcs.com |
Illinois Valley Cellular | number@ivctext.com |
Iridium (satellite) | number@msg.iridium.com |
Iusacell | number@rek2.com.mx |
i wireless | number.iws@iwspcs.net |
Koodo Mobile (Canada) | number@msg.koodomobile.com |
LMT (Latvia) | number@sms.lmt.lv |
Meteor (Ireland) | number@sms.mymeteor.ie |
Mero Mobile (Nepal) | 977number@sms.spicenepal.com |
MetroPCS | number@mymetropcs.com |
Movicom (Argentina) | number@sms.movistar.net.ar |
Mobitel (Sri Lanka) | number@sms.mobitel.lk |
Movistar (Colombia) | number@movistar.com.co |
MTN (South Africa) | number@sms.co.za |
MTS (Canada) | number@text.mtsmobility.com |
Nextel (United States) | number@messaging.nextel.com |
Nextel (Argentina) | TwoWay.11number@nextel.net.ar |
Orange Polska (Poland) | 9digit@orange.pl |
Personal (Argentina) | number@alertas.personal.com.ar |
Plus GSM (Poland) | +48number@text.plusgsm.pl |
President’s Choice (Canada) | number@txt.bell.ca |
Qwest | number@qwestmp.com |
Rogers (Canada) | number@pcs.rogers.com |
SL Interactive (Australia) | number@slinteractive.com.au |
Sasktel (Canada) | number@sms.sasktel.com |
Setar Mobile email (Aruba) | 297+number@mas.aw |
Suncom | number@tms.suncom.com |
T-Mobile (Austria) | number@sms.t-mobile.at |
T-Mobile (UK) | number@t-mobile.uk.net |
Telus Mobility (Canada) | number@msg.telus.com |
Thumb Cellular | number@sms.thumbcellular.com |
Tigo (Formerly Ola) | number@sms.tigo.com.co |
Tracfone (prepaid) | number@mmst5.tracfone.com |
Unicel | number@utext.com |
Virgin Mobile (Canada) | number@vmobile.ca |
Vodacom (South Africa) | number@voda.co.za |
Vodafone (Italy) | number@sms.vodafone.it |
YCC | number@sms.ycc.ru |
MobiPCS (Hawaii only) | number@mobipcs.net |
Remember to make the message short (messages longer than 160 characters may be split into multiple messages of 160 characters each, or show just the first part of it for your review).
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2 comments:
More here: http://newsandtips.carputers.net/2008/11/28/send-text-messages-to-a-mobile-phone-from-your-pc-for-free/
Hi,
There is a global email to SMS gateway, that you can use using the format 00+countrycode+mobilenumber@smssturen.com
i.e. 00447811111111@smssturen.com, and put the message in the subject line.
It's described in more detail here: http://sites.google.com/site/emailtosmsgateway/
Dan.
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