Posted: October 28, 2008/Under: Internet/By: My Digital Life Editorial Team

SMS or text message is one of the golden egg that generates more and more revenue for most mobile or cellphone service carrier or network operator around the world. One of the reason for big money been made from text messaging service is that it’s actually not so cheap to send a SMS from your hand phone, especially when one is SMS-addict who can’t stop sending text messages.

Lesser known is that, most telecommunication companies do provide free email to text service or web SMS feature. Email to text service delivers the content of the mail message to the recipient’s cellphone as SMS text message, while WebSMS allows users to send SMS from a web form. Both email-to-text or email-to-sms service and Internet SMS service allows users or people without a mobile cell phone to send SMS to the recipients for free, such as trick used by iPhone users to send free text SMS.

However, the usefulness of e-mail-to-text service is not ended just for free SMS delivery. It’s also helpful for user who wants to receive SMS or text notification instead of email notification of alerting system without investing in standalone SMS or text messaging gateway. User can forward the email alert or reminder to phone carrier’s email address to receive message in phone directly instead of sending to normal email address mailbox.

Here’s a list of email addresses or web URL to use for various cellphone service network operator in order to deliver the message via test message or SMS to intended recipients for free. As it’s direct service provided by the cellular network telcos, the delivery of text messages is considered to be reliable, but not guaranteed though. Note that some service provider may require recipient (cellphone owner) to pay for each text message or SMS received, or require the subscribers to activate the email-to-text (SMS) service beforehand.

Note: from, msg, and total means number of characters to deliver in SMS text taken from the sender and content. Number means the phone number of the intended recipient. For USA (United States), the phone number consists of 10-digit numbers.

Aliant (NBTel, MTT, NewTel, and Island Tel) (from: 11, msg: 140, total: 140)
[email protected] or [email protected] (obsolete)

Alltel (from: 50, msg: 116, total: 116)
[email protected].

Ameritech (ACSWireless) (from: 120, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

Arch Wireless (from: 15, msg: 240, total: 240)
Sent via http://www.arch.com/message/ (assumes blank PIN)

AT&T (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

AU by KDDI (from: 20, msg: 10000, total: 10000)
[email protected]

BeeLine GSM (from: 50, msg: 255, total: 255)
[email protected]

Bell Mobility Canada (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected] (include the 1 prefix)

Bellsouth (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

BellSouth Mobility (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Blue Sky Frog (from: 30, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

Boost (from: 30, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

Celcom
[email protected] or [email protected]

Cellular South (from: 50, msg: 155, total: 155)
[email protected]

CellularOne (Dobson) (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

CellularOne West (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

Centennial Wireless (from: 10, msg: 110, total: 110)
Sent via http://www.centennialwireless.com

Cincinnati Bell (from: 20, msg: 50, total: 50)
[email protected]

Claro (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Comviq (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Dutchtone/Orange-NL (from: 15, msg: 150, total: 150)
[email protected]

Edge Wireless (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

EinsteinPCS / Airadigm Communications (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

EPlus (from: 20, msg: 480, total: 480)
[email protected].

Estonia Mobile Telefon (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Sent via EMT Self-Service.

Fido Canada (from: 15, msg: 140, total: 140)
[email protected].

Golden Telecom (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Idea Cellular (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Kyivstar (from: 30, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

LMT (from: 30, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

Manitoba Telecom Systems (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

Maxis
Sent via http://websms.maxis.com.my/.

Meteor (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Metro PCS (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

Metrocall Pager (from: 120, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

Mobile TeleSystems (MTS Primtel, MTS.Sakhalin) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Sent via http://sakh.mts.ru/abonent/sending/sms/.

MobileOne (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Mobilfone (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Mobility Bermuda (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Netcom (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Nextel (from: 50, msg: 126, total: 126)
[email protected] (no dashes in phone number)

NPI Wireless (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

NTC (Nepal Telecom) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Sent via http://websms.ntc.net.np/.

O2 (formerly BTCellnet) (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected] (activate O2 username at http://www.o2.co.uk)

O2 M-mail (formerly BTCellnet) (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
+44[number]@mmail.co.uk (omit preceding zero – must be enabled first by sending an SMS saying “ON” to phone number “212”)

Optus (from: 20, msg: 114, total: 114)
[email protected]

Orange (UK) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected] (an user account at orange.net is required)

Oskar (from: 20, msg: 320, total: 320)
[email protected]

Pagenet (from: 20, msg: 220, total: 240)
[email protected] (10-digit phone number, gateway and pager number separated by a period)

PCS Rogers (from: 20, msg: 125, total: 125)
[email protected] (requires prior registration with PCS Rogers)

Personal Communication (Sonet) (from: 20, msg: 150, total: 150)
[email protected] with phone number in the subject line

Plus GSM Poland (from: 20, msg: 620, total: 620)
[email protected] (10 digit phone number)

Powertel (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected] (10-digit phone number)

Primtel (from: 20, msg: 150, total: 150)
[email protected]

PSC Wireless (from: 20, msg: 150, total: 150)
[email protected]

Qualcomm (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

Qwest (from: 14, msg: 100, total: 100)
[email protected] (10-digit phone number)

Safaricom (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Satelindo GSM (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

SCS-900 (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Simple Freedom (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

SingTel
Sent via http://sms.singtel.com/internetsms/.

Skytel – Alphanumeric (from: 15, msg: 240, total: 240)
[email protected] (7-digit pin number as the number)

Smart Telecom (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Smarts GSM (from: 11, msg: 70, total: 70)
Sent via http://www.samara-gsm.ru/scripts/smsgate.exe

Southern Linc (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected] (10-digit phone number)

Sprint PCS (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected] (10-digit phone number)

Sprint PCS – Short Mail (from: 15, msg: 1000, total: 1000)
[email protected]

StarHub
[email protected] (require activation of SMS Email) or sent via http://websms.starhub.com/

SunCom (from: 18, msg: 110, total: 110)
[email protected].

SureWest Communications (from: 20, msg: 200, total: 200)
[email protected]

SwissCom Mobile (from: 20, msg: 10000, total: 10000)
[email protected]

T-Mobile Germany (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

T-Mobile Netherlands (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected] (number starting with 316 – require activation by sending “EMAIL ON” to 555 from the phone)

T-Mobile UK (from: 30, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

T-Mobile USA (from: 30, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

T-Mobile USA (Sidekick) (from: 30, msg: 10000, total: 10000)
[email protected]

Tele2 Latvia (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected] (10-digit phone number)

Telefonica Movistar (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected] (10-digit phone number)

Telenor (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected] (10-digit phone number)

Telia Denmark (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected] (8-digit phone number)

Telus Mobility (from: 30, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected] (10-digit phone number)

The Phone House (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected] (10-digit phone number)

TIM (from: 30, msg: 350, total: 350)
[email protected] (10-digit phone number)

UMC (from: 10, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

Unicel (from: 10, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

US Cellular (from: , msg: 150, total: 150)
[email protected] (10 digit USCC phone number) or sent via http://messaging.uscc.com/sendtextmsg/

Verizon Wireless (from: 34, msg: 140, total: 140)
[email protected] (10-digit phone number) or sent via https://www.vtext.com

Verizon Wireless (formerly Airtouch customers only) (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
[email protected]

Verizon Wireless (myairmail.com) (from: 34, msg: 140, total: 140)
[email protected].

Vessotel (from: 20, msg: 800, total: 800)
[email protected]

Virgin Mobile Canada (from: 20, msg: 140, total: 140)
[email protected]

Virgin Mobile USA (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Vodafone Italy (from: 20, msg: 132, total: 132)
[email protected]

Vodafone Japan (Chuugoku/Western) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Vodafone Japan (Hokkaido) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Vodafone Japan (Hokuriko/Central North) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Vodafone Japan (Kansai/West including Osaka) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Vodafone Japan (Kanto/Koushin/East including Tokyo) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Vodafone Japan (Kyuushu/Okinawa) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Vodafone Japan (Shikoku) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Vodafone Japan (Touhoku/Niigata/North) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Vodafone Japan (Toukai/Central) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

Vodafone Spain (from: 20, msg: 90, total: 90)
[email protected]

Vodafone UK (from: 20, msg: 70, total: 90)
[email protected]

Voicestream (from: 15, msg: 140, total: 140)
Refer to T-Mobile USA.

Weblink Wireless (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

WellCom (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
[email protected]

WyndTell (from: 20, msg: 480, total: 500)
[email protected] or [email protected]

The list above is by no mean complete. If you have any new or updated information on the free SMS service provided by the cellular network operator or carrier itself, or the SMS text message gateway no longer work, do share in the comment section below.

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