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Someone asked recently how they could send a text message (SMS) to a group (or class of students) all at once?
For a bit, I tried finding a free service but gave up the search. Just as I was about to throw in the towel, I ran across a MakeUseOf.com article. It suggests setting up a distribution list, or group of contacts, in your email consisting of people’s mobile phone numbers. Of course, you’ll have to know who their phone carrier is, but that’s not hard to find out…just ask them. Once you have that information (phone number and carrier), it is pretty easy to setup a group in Gmail, for example, and then send emails to the group.
Most of mobile carriers offer free Email To SMS gateways which can be used to forward simple text emails to a mobile phones. And the good news, majority of those gateways are free and available to the general public.
You just need to know the number and the carrier of the recipient to start emailing them to mobile phone. Below we put together a table listing free email to SMS gateways for different carriers. You can use as quick reference both for US and international mobile numbers.
For fun, I set it up for my family and it worked flawlessly. Neat idea and thanks to MakeUseOf.com for sharing the following table for United States and International carriers:
Free Email To SMS Gateways (Major US Carriers)
Carrier
Email to SMS Gateway
Alltel
[10-digit phone number]@message.alltel.com
Example: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Boost Mobile
[10-digit phone number]@myboostmobile.com
Example: [email protected]
Nextel (now Sprint Nextel)
[10-digit telephone number]@messaging.nextel.com
Example: [email protected]
Sprint PCS (now Sprint Nextel)
[10-digit phone number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com
[10-digit phone number]@pm.sprint.com (MMS)
Example: [email protected]
T-Mobile
[10-digit phone number]@tmomail.net
Example: [email protected]
US Cellular
[10-digit phone number]email.uscc.net (SMS)
[10-digit phone number]@mms.uscc.net (MMS)
Example: [email protected]
Verizon
[10-digit phone number]@vtext.com
[10-digit phone number]@vzwpix.com (MMS)
Example: [email protected]
Virgin Mobile USA
[10-digit phone number]@vmobl.com
Example: [email protected]
Free Email To SMS Gateways (International + Smaller US)
These are all I could find from Wikipedia and other sources. If you’re aware of any other ones please share them in comments and I’ll add them to the list.
Carrier
Email to SMS Gateway
7-11 Speakout (USA GSM)
Airtel (Karnataka, India)
Airtel Wireless (Montana, USA)
Alaska Communications Systems
Aql
AT&T Enterprise Paging
BigRedGiant Mobile Solutions
Bell Mobility & Solo Mobile (Canada)
BPL Mobile (Mumbai, India)
Cellular One (Dobson)
Cingular (Postpaid)
Centennial Wireless
Cingular (GoPhone prepaid)
[email protected] (SMS)
Claro (Brasil)
Claro (Nicaragua)
Comcel
Cricket
[email protected] (SMS)
CTI
Emtel (Mauritius)
Fido (Canada)
General Communications Inc.
Globalstar (satellite)
Helio
Illinois Valley Cellular
Iridium (satellite)
Iusacell
i wireless
Koodo Mobile (Canada)
LMT (Latvia)
Meteor (Ireland)
Mero Mobile (Nepal)
MetroPCS
Movicom (Argentina)
Mobitel (Sri Lanka)
Movistar (Colombia)
MTN (South Africa)
MTS (Canada)
Nextel (United States)
Nextel (Argentina)
Orange Polska (Poland)
Personal (Argentina)
Plus GSM (Poland)
President’s Choice (Canada)
Qwest
Rogers (Canada)
SL Interactive (Australia)
Sasktel (Canada)
Setar Mobile email (Aruba)
Suncom
T-Mobile (Austria)
T-Mobile (UK)
Telus Mobility (Canada)
Thumb Cellular
Tigo (Formerly Ola)
Tracfone (prepaid)
Unicel
Virgin Mobile (Canada)
Vodacom (South Africa)
Vodafone (Italy)
YCC
MobiPCS (Hawaii only)
And, of course, if you must, you can always send out txt messages using ohdontforget.com
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