Tech Tip #44

Sending a Email message to a Mobile Phone Number

Cellular carriers provide a service that many people are unaware of — the ability to send email to a cell phone. In other words, this is how to send a text message from email. 

Carriers assign an email address to each phone number utilizing a format that is specific to each carrier.  Using this format you can compose email or text messages with Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Mail, AOL, Gmail, or other email programs and easily send your email message to the cell phone of a person or a group of people.

Text messages are limited to a 160 character maximum.

An example of how to send a text via email to a Verizon account you would use the “@vtext.com”  extension  ex: 4105551212@vtext.com.

Here are some of the major carrier extensions:

Verizon –    “phonenumber@vtext.com”  or 4151112222@vtext.com
AT&T –     4151112222@txt.att.net.
Sprint –      4151112222@messaging.sprintpcs.com