It is possible to receive email messages to your phone. The majority of carriers have “SMS gateways”. They take email messages from the Internet and deliver them to their customers’ cell phones as SMS text messages.  This means you can send email message which will be converted into SMS text message, and sent directly to the mobile phone. This can be useful for those who need to receive important messages quickly and accurately, especially if the person you are trying to contact is only available by mobile phone.

Teleflip is an easy way to send email to any phone. Just address it to [10-digit phone number]@teleflip.com. This service allows to get emails and choose where you get emails from. No extra costs, fancy phones or contracts.

Google Mobile provides free service to send free messages. Note that charges from your carrier for usage may apply.

TxtDrop enables users in the United States and Canada to send text messages with instant delivery. No more need to pay your cellular provider up to 10 cents for sending your friend a text. Just enter your name, your friends mobile number and your message and we’ll send your text instantly. Completely free of charge.

GismoSMS provides service to send free messages to any mobile phone. There is no charge to send messages with Gizmo SMS however the receiver may have charges for receiving the message.

Pikamo lets you send text messages worldwide from your phone or from our social networking website. Peekamo is now available in 179 countries with support for over 500 mobile providers. Use Pikamo on your HTC camera phone and see just how effective it is.

SMS Gateways

In order to send an email message to a phone, it is not enough to know the recipient’s phone number. You also need to know what carrier the recipient’s phone is on, since the carrier determines what email address of the receiving phone is going to be. For example, Cingular phones’ address are all “number@cingularme.com” while Verizon phones are “number@vtext.com.”
Find your carrier in the list below, and then use the pattern shown there to figure out your email address. If you want to send email to friends’ phone, just ask them which carrier they use.

Sprint PCS (now Sprint Nextel)
[10-digit phone number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Example: 2125552555@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Web Form

Alltel
[10-digit phone number]@message.alltel.com
Example: 2125552555@message.alltel.co
Web Form

Boost Mobile
[10-digit phone number]@myboostmobile.com
Example: 2125552555@myboostmobile.com
Web Form

Virgin Mobile USA
[10-digit phone number]@vmobl.com
Example: 5552555555@vmobl.com
Web Form

AT&T Wireless (now part of Cingular)
[10-digit phone number]@mmode.com
Example: 2125552555@mmode.com

Cingular
[10-digit phone number]@mobile.mycingular.com OR
[10-digit number]@cingularme.com
Example: 4152555555@cingularme.com

Nextel (now part of Sprint Nextel)
[10-digit telephone number]@messaging.nextel.com
Example: 7035552555@messaging.nextel.com

Web Form

T-Mobile
[10-digit phone number]@tmomail.net
Example: 4252555555@tmomail.net
Web Form

Verizon
[10-digit phone number]@vtext.com
Example: 555255555@vtext.com
Web Form

Other Carriers:

3 River Wireless phonenumber@sms.3rivers.net
ACS Wireless phonenumber@paging.acswireless.com
Advantage Communications 10digitpagernumber@advantagepaging.com
Airtouch Pagers 10digitpagernumber@myairmail.com
Airtouch Pagers 10digitpagernumber@alphapage.airtouch.com
Airtouch Pagers 10digitpagernumber@airtouch.net
Airtouch Pagers 10digitpagernumber@airtouchpaging.com
AlphNow pin@alphanow.net
Alltel 10digitphonenumber@alltelmessage.com
Alltel PCS 10digitphonenumber@message.alltel.com
Ameritech Paging 10digitpagernumber@paging.acswireless.com
Ameritech Paging 10digitpagernumber@pageapi.com
Ameritech Clearpath 10digitpagernumber@clearpath.acswireless.com
Andhra Pradesh Airtel phonenumber@airtelap.com
Arch Pagers (PageNet) 10digitpagernumber@archwireless.net
Arch Pagers (PageNet) 10digitpagernumber@epage.arch.com
Arch Pagers (PageNet) 10digitpagernumber@archwireless.net
AT&T PCS 10digitphonenumber@mobile.att.net
AT&T Pocketnet PCS 10digitphonenumber@dpcs.mobile.att.net
Beepwear pagernumber@beepwear.net
BeeLine GSM phonenumber@sms.beemail.ru
Bell Atlantic phonenumber@message.bam.com
Bell Canada phonenumber@txt.bellmobility.ca
Bell Canada phonenumber@bellmobility.ca
Bell Mobility (Canada) phonenumber@txt.bell.ca
Bell Mobility number@txt.bellmobility.ca
Bell South (Blackberry) number@bellsouthtips.com
Bell South phonenumber@sms.bellsouth.com
Bell South phonenumber@wireless.bellsouth.com
Bell South phonenumber@blsdcs.net
Bell South phonenumber@bellsouth.cl
Bell South Mobility phonenumber@blsdcs.net
Blue Sky Frog phonenumber@blueskyfrog.com
Bluegrass Cellular phonenumber@sms.bluecell.com
Boost phonenumber@myboostmobile.com
BPL mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.comCable & wireless, Panama cellnumber@cwmovil.comCarolina Mobile Communications 10digitpagernumber@cmcpaging.com
Cellular One East Coast phonenumber@phone.cellone.net
Cellular One South West phonenumber@swmsg.com
Cellular One PCS phonenumber@paging.cellone-sf.com
Cellular One 10digitphonenumber@mobile.celloneusa.com
Cellular One phonenumber@cellularone.txtmsg.com
Cellular One phonenumber@cellularone.textmsg.com
Cellular One phonenumber@cell1.textmsg.com
Cellular One phonenumber@message.cellone-sf.com
Cellular One phonenumber@sbcemail.com
Cellular One West phonenumber@mycellone.com
Cellular South phonenumber@csouth1.com
Central Vermont Communications 10digitpagernumber@cvcpaging.com
CenturyTel phonenumber@messaging.centurytel.net
Chennai RPG Cellular phonenumber@rpgmail.net
Chennai Skycell / Airtel phonenumber@airtelchennai.com
Cincinnati Bell phonenumber@mobile.att.net
Cingular 10digitphonenumber@cingularme.com
Cingular Wireless 10digitphonenumber@mycingular.textmsg.com
Cingular Wireless 10digitphonenumber@mobile.mycingular.com
Cingular Wireless 10digitphonenumber@mobile.mycingular.net
Clearnet phonenumber@msg.clearnet.com
Comcast phonenumber@comcastpcs.textmsg.com
Communication Specialists 7digitpin@pageme.comspeco.net
Communication Specialist Companies pin@pager.comspeco.com
Comviq number@sms.comviq.se
Cook Paging 10digitpagernumber@cookmail.com
Corr Wireless Communications phonenumber@corrwireless.net
Delhi Aritel phonenumber@airtelmail.com
Delhi Hutch phonenumber@delhi.hutch.co.in
Digi-Page / Page Kansas 10digitpagernumber@page.hit.net
Dobson Cellular Systems phonenumber@mobile.dobson.net
Dobson-Alex Wireless / Dobson-Cellular One phonenumber@mobile.cellularone.com
DT T-Mobile phonenumber@t-mobile-sms.de
Dutchtone / Orange-NL phonenumber@sms.orange.nl
Edge Wireless phonenumber@sms.edgewireless.com
EMT phonenumber@sms.emt.ee
Escotel phonenumber@escotelmobile.com
Fido phonenumber@fido.ca
Galaxy Corporation 10digitpagernumber.epage@sendabeep.net
GCS Paging pagernumber@webpager.us
Goa BPLMobil phonenumber@bplmobile.com
Golden Telecom phonenumber@sms.goldentele.com
GrayLink / Porta-Phone 10digitpagernumber@epage.porta-phone.com
GTE number@airmessage.net
GTE number@gte.pagegate.net
GTE 10digitphonenumber@messagealert.com
Gujarat Celforce phonenumber@celforce.com
Houston Cellular number@text.houstoncellular.net
Idea Cellular phonenumber@ideacellular.net
Infopage Systems pinnumber@page.infopagesystems.com
Inland Cellular Telephone phonenumber@inlandlink.com
The Indiana Paging Co last4digits@pager.tdspager.com
JSM Tele-Page pinnumber@jsmtel.com
Kerala Escotel phonenumber@escotelmobile.com
Kolkata Airtel phonenumber@airtelkol.com
Kyivstar number@smsmail.lmt.lv
Lauttamus Communication pagernumber@e-page.net
LMT phonenumber@smsmail.lmt.lv
Maharashtra BPL Mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com
Maharashtra Idea Cellular phonenumber@ideacellular.net
Manitoba Telecom Systems phonenumber@text.mtsmobility.com
MCI Phone phonenumber@mci.com
MCI phonenumber@pagemci.com
Meteor phonenumber@mymeteor.ie
Meteor phonenumber@sms.mymeteor.ie
Metrocall 10digitpagernumber@page.metrocall.com
Metrocall 2-way 10digitpagernumber@my2way.com
Metro PCS 10digitphonenumber@mymetropcs.com
Metro PCS 10digitphonenumber@metropcs.sms.us
Microcell phonenumber@fido.ca
Midwest Wireless phonenumber@clearlydigital.com
MiWorld phonenumber@m1.com.sg
Mobilecom PA 10digitpagernumber@page.mobilcom.net
Mobilecomm number@mobilecomm.net
Mobileone phonenumber@m1.com.sg
Mobilfone phonenumber@page.mobilfone.com
Mobility Bermuda phonenumber@ml.bm
Mobistar Belgium phonenumber@mobistar.be
Mobitel Tanzania phonenumber@sms.co.tz
Mobtel Srbija phonenumber@mobtel.co.yu
Morris Wireless 10digitpagernumber@beepone.net
Motient number@isp.com
Movistar number@correo.movistar.net
Mumbai BPL Mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com
Mumbai Orange phonenumber@orangemail.co.in
NBTel number@wirefree.informe.ca
Netcom phonenumber@sms.netcom.no
Nextel 10digitphonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Nextel 10digitphonenumber@page.nextel.com
Nextel 10digitphonenumber@nextel.com.br
NPI Wireless phonenumber@npiwireless.com
Ntelos number@pcs.ntelos.com
O2 name@o2.co.uk
O2 (M-mail) number@mmail.co.uk
Omnipoint number@omnipoint.com
Omnipoint 10digitphonenumber@omnipointpcs.com
One Connect Austria phonenumber@onemail.at
OnlineBeep 10digitphonenumber@onlinebeep.net
Optus Mobile phonenumber@optusmobile.com.au
Orange phonenumber@orange.net
Orange Mumbai phonenumber@orangemail.co.in
Orange – NL / Dutchtone phonenumber@sms.orange.nl
Oskar phonenumber@mujoskar.cz
P&T Luxembourg phonenumber@sms.luxgsm.lu
Pacific Bell phonenumber@pacbellpcs.net
PageMart 7digitpinnumber@pagemart.net
PageMart Advanced /2way 10digitpagernumber@airmessage.net
PageMart Canada 10digitpagernumber@pmcl.net
PageNet Canada phonenumber@pagegate.pagenet.ca
PageOne NorthWest 10digitnumber@page1nw.com
PCS One phonenumber@pcsone.net
Personal Communication sms@pcom.ru (number in subject line)
Pioneer / Enid Cellular phonenumber@msg.pioneerenidcellular.com
PlusGSM phonenumber@text.plusgsm.pl
Pondicherry BPL Mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com
Powertel phonenumber@voicestream.net
Price Communications phonenumber@mobilecell1se.com
Primco number@primeco@textmsg.com
Primtel phonenumber@sms.primtel.ru
ProPage 7digitpagernumber@page.propage.net
Public Service Cellular phonenumber@sms.pscel.com
Qualcomm name@pager.qualcomm.com
Qwest 10digitphonenumber@qwestmp.com
RAM Page number@ram-page.com
Rogers AT&T Wireless phonenumber@pcs.rogers.com
Rogers Canada 10digitphonenumber@pcs.rogers.com
Safaricom phonenumber@safaricomsms.com
Satelindo GSM phonenumber@satelindogsm.com
Satellink 10digitpagernumber.pageme@satellink.net
SBC Ameritech Paging 10digitpagernumber@paging.acswireless.com
SCS-900 phonenumber@scs-900.ru
SFR France phonenumber@sfr.fr
Skytel Pagers 7digitpinnumber@skytel.com
Skytel Pagers number@email.skytel.com
Simple Freedom phonenumber@text.simplefreedom.net
Smart Telecom phonenumber@mysmart.mymobile.ph
Southern LINC 10digitphonenumber@page.southernlinc.com
Southwestern Bell number@email.swbw.com
Sprint 10digitphonenumber@sprintpaging.com
Sprint PCS 10digitphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
ST Paging pin@page.stpaging.com
SunCom number@tms.suncom.com
SunCom number@suncom1.com
Sunrise Mobile phonenumber@mysunrise.ch
Sunrise Mobile phonenumber@freesurf.ch
Surewest Communicaitons phonenumber@mobile.surewest.com
Swisscom phonenumber@bluewin.ch
T-Mobile 10digitphonenumber@tmomail.net
T-Mobile 10digitphonenumber@voicestream.net
T-Mobile Austria phonenumber@sms.t-mobile.at
T-Mobile Germany phonenumber@t-d1-sms.de
T-Mobile UK phonenumber@t-mobile.uk.net
Tamil Nadu BPL Mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com
Tele2 Latvia phonenumber@sms.tele2.lv
Telefonica Movistar phonenumber@movistar.net
Telenor phonenumber@mobilpost.no
Teletouch 10digitpagernumber@pageme.teletouch.com
Telia Denmark phonenumber@gsm1800.telia.dk
Telus phonenumber@msg.telus.com
TIM 10digitphonenumber@timnet.com
Triton phonenumber@tms.suncom.com
TSR Wireless pagernumber@alphame.com
TSR Wireless pagernumber@beep.com
UMC phonenumber@sms.umc.com.ua
Unicel phonenumber@utext.com
Uraltel phonenumber@sms.uraltel.ru
US Cellular 10digitphonenumber@email.uscc.net
US Cellular 10digitphonenumber@uscc.textmsg.com
US West number@uswestdatamail.com
Uttar Pradesh Escotel phonenumber@escotelmobile.com
Verizon Pagers 10digitpagernumber@myairmail.com
Verizon PCS 10digitphonenumber@vtext.com
Verizon PCS 10digitphonenumber@myvzw.com
Vessotel phonenumber@pager.irkutsk.ru
Virgin Mobile phonenumber@vmobl.com
Virgin Mobile phonenumber@vxtras.com
Vodafone Italy number@sms.vodafone.it
Vodafone Japan phonenumber@c.vodafone.ne.jp
Vodafone Japan phonenumber@h.vodafone.ne.jp
Vodafone Japan phonenumber@t.vodafone.ne.jp
Vodafone Spain phonenumber@vodafone.es
Vodafone UK phonenumber@vodafone.net
VoiceStream / T-Mobile 10digitphonenumber@voicestream.net
WebLink Wiereless pagernumber@airmessage.net
WebLink Wiereless pagernumber@pagemart.net
West Central Wireless phonenumber@sms.wcc.net
Western Wireless phonenumber@cellularonewest.com