Send Text Messages for Free via E-mail

Want to send a short email to a friend and get it delivered to his/her cell phone as SMS? If you know your friends’ phone numbers and the carrier they are on then you can easily send emails to their cell phones directly from your email program.

Here is how it works:

Most of mobile carriers offer free Email To 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.

US Carriers	Examples
Alltel	1234567890@message.alltel.com
AT&T (formerly Cingular)	1234567890@txt.att.net
Boost Mobile	1234567890@myboostmobile.com
Nextel (now Sprint Nextel)	1234567890@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint PCS (now Sprint Nextel)	1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile	1234567890@tmomail.net
US Cellular	1234567890@email.uscc.net
Verizon	1234567890@vtext.com
Virgin Mobile USA	1234567890@vmobl.com

Full list of US and international mobile numbers.