Status of SMS and Cell Providers
Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Chris Coyier
In order for us to send SMS text message notifications to your cell phone, your cell service provider needs to have an email to SMS gateway for us to work with. For the time being, this is the only way. Keep reading to see our status with the providers you guys have suggested so far. If you have a provider you would like to see added, feel free to leave a comment below or contact us.
Will not work
- Telefort (Netherlands)
- TIM (Brazil, Italy)
- Movistar (Panama)
- Optus (Austraila)
- Cyta (Cyprus)
Still need to check out:
- TELE2 (Croatia)
- Cellcom (U.S.)
- KPN (Netherlands)
- Globe Telecoms (Philippines)
- Era (Poland)
- Beeline (Uzbekistan)
- Wind (Italy, Greece)
- Vodafone (Italy)
- Vodafone (New Zealand)
- Vodafone (Netherlands)
- Vodafone (Portugal)
- Vodafone (Australia)
- Vodafone (India)
- Vodafone (Turkey)
- Telstra (Australia)
- 3 Mobile (Australia)
- Telecom (New Zealand)
- Dialog GSM (Sri Lanka)
- Mobitel (Sri Lanka)
- T-Mobile (Netherlands)
- Fido (Canada)
- Telenor (Pakistan)
- Bharti Airtel (India)
- 3 Mobile (Sweden)
- Cincinnati Bell
- Net10
- Cellone (India)
- Proximus (Belgium)
- Bouygues Telecom (France)
- Oi TNL PCS S.A (Brazil)
- VIP (Croatia)
- Tele2 (Sweden)
- Telcel (Mexico)
- Turkcell (Turkey)
- Avea (Turkey)
- Mobistar (Belgium)
These carriers are WORKING:
- AT&T
- Alltel
- Bell Canada
- Cingular
- Cricket
- Helio
- MetroPCS
- Nextel
- O2
- Orange
- Rogers
- SFR France
- Sprint
- T-Mobile (US)
- T-Mobile (Austria)
- T-Mobile (Germany)
- T-Mobile (UK)
- Telus
- US Cellular
- Verizon
- Virgin Mobile
- Vodafone UK
regarding Status of SMS, I do not see Fido [canada] which is owned by rogers[in the list] but fido isn’t. any plans to add?
I’ll add Fido to the list of providers to check out. Thanks Syed.
Hi there, I found this page on vodafone IT webpage and thought that would be of some help, even thought only ten sms can be send for free (woo how bad) but then says it’s a free service: http://snipurl.com/9j1jr
TRANSLATED CONTENT
“Send SMS to Vodafone cell phones from your email address.
How it works
Compose the SMS using your email client, then send it to 3**XXXXXXX@sms.vodafone.it
On the sent message your email address will display.
The text must not exceed 132 characters.
You can send up to 10 free SMS per day.
To make use of the service, you must register to the website http://www.vodefone.it and use the email address provided for registration
Example:sending a SMS from your email to the number 348/1234567, the recipient address is 3481234567@sms.vodafone.it
How much does it cost?
The service is free.”
Thanks for the info Guilio, I think that is exactly what we need to get that working.
First off, let me just say WOW. Great idea and service. I would also like to sugest Vodafone Portugal.
Thanks and Cheers,
P.
I’ll add this to the list of providers to check out. Thanks Pedro.
Hmmm mail to sms, didn’t even know regular providers did this… I use a sms gateway from an other company that supports it. Wouldn’t that be a solution? Using a third party system to send out the sms?
That is what we used to use, and then that company went under, which was a huge pain. Doing it this way eliminates any ties to another company that might do the same thing.
What is the company you use?
I use the sms gateway of Mollie.nl, I think the international sister website is Zaypay.com (both owned by Stash.nl).
Great service.
Can you add 3 UK to the list to check out. Thanks
Chris,
Seeing as Optus won’t work i know of an Australian online web SMS service that is launching an API soon for this sort of thing.
I can email you the details for this.
Thanks,
Andrew
Could you confirm if Virgin Mobile is UK? As I’ve entered my mobile (beginning 078..) and haven’t yet received any SMS messages, even though my sites have been down on numerous occasions.
Congratulations on a great free and simple service!
Just realised I could have answered my own question – I’ve changed the number now, so that it begins 4478 (replacing the 0). Let’s see if that works.
If that actually works for you please let me know. I’ve been trying to sort out how this international phone number thing works and so far we have no reports of it working yet. If we can get it working with one person I can spread the word for everyone else.
I see this service is temporarily down, but once it’s back up I’ve amended my settings. Removing the 0 and putting the international code (44 in my case) didn’t work, or at least I’ve not yet received an SMS. I’ve now changed it to be +44[number-minus-0] as spotted a few other SMS gateways on the ‘net appear to use that format.
We’re in the process of bringing this back up (in fact, I think it’s back up now), so please let me know if you do in fact get an SMS message with your international number.
I really want to get it working with someone so I can spread the word on what is working.
Alltel in US is working successfully. Saw it on the drop down option when signing up, but do not see it on the “Working” list of your blog post.
Great service, thank you.
Added to the “working” list.
Is that possible to add Telenor Pakistan in the list?
Could Not find Vodafone India in the list. kindly update me if you have this Unique SMS service for Vodafone India
Please add Bharti Airtel – India to the list
Will you be adding Skype as a phone/SMS provider? That would give you unlimited coverage!
So all we need now is an add on for Firefox that sits in the Quick Launch area and everyone will be happy. Great product!
Please add 3 Mobile (Sweden).
Thanks!
Would be cool to have Cincinnati Bell added
Can you please add or look into Net10? It’s a great service and growing rapidly in popularity. Thanks!
PS Great service!!
hi, Greg:
Did you find out net10 sms email address yet?
I am new to net10, need to figure out the net10 SMS email address so I can got paged in case.
Thanks,
Justin
Great services you’ve got here. I hope this will continue for the long time and can handle huge traffic if this get so popular.
Thank you.
Brilliant idea.
Can u add Cellone owned by BSNL(India)…
Cheers.
Belgium does not seem to be represented yet, Proximus (Vodafone) is the market leader there, that would be a nice addition (and a good excuse for me to promote your service around my contacts).
Nice job with this and the website design.
Could you please check Bouygues Telecom (France)? It’s the 3rd carrier here. Maybe not a priority but would be useful to a lot of people.
Thanks for building this service.
Hi!! This is awesome! Please, could you add a mobile carrier from Brazil – Oi TNL PCS S.A? Thank you for this great service!
Could you please check VIP (Croatia): http://www.vipnet.hr/cw/show?idc=16629968
Thanks!
Mobinil (Egypt)
Vodafone (Egypt)
If you guys could confirm Globe Telecom, that would be awesome.
Hello Chris!
Please add support for Tele2 (Sweden)
http://www.tele2.se
Thanks for this great service!
-Simon
Hi
great service
could you add TELCEL MEXICO?
thanks
To save you some trouble, I just checked the two biggest Norwegian operators and they no longer offer email to SMS gateways. It used to be:
Netcom:
phonenumber@sms.netcom.no
(Needed GSMPost subscribtion)
Telenor:
phonenumber@mobilpost.no
(Activation needed on Telenor’s “My Page”)
But not anymore apparently
That’s a bummer, if they ever do again we should be able fairly easy integrate it.
…Brings up a good point. If anyone wants to speed the process along for your own Cell Provider, you can go ahead and do a little research on their website and see if they offer an email-to-SMS gateway. That’s what we need to make it work. Shooting us a link or posting it here would be very helpful.
Les dejo las extensiones para Argentina:
[number]@sms.movistar.net.ar
[number]@personal-net.com.ar
[number]@sms.ctimovil.com.ar
[number]@nextel.net.ar
ejemplo:
numero 54 0261 155 886 932
542615886932@sms.movistar.net.ar
Muy buen servicio, gracias
And for Ecuador?
I see Virgin UK and T-Mobile UK, but would O2 UK work?
O2 is UK only as far as I know. Give it a show if you can get it working for you. I’m still not sure on the exact formatting for international numbers, so if you can get it working definitely let me know.
I’ll add it and wait then, I’m on a (mt) GS, so it shouldn’t be too long before my sites go down!
Just so you know, a UK (mobile) number always starts with “07″ like “07123 456789″, for international calls & texts to the UK, you replace the “0″ with “+44″ to get “+447123 456789″. =]
I’m actually starting to think you probably DON’T need the country code or the + or anything. Probably just the 10 digits that make the base of the number. Try that? If you want add a site we can bring up and down to test, shoot me an email (chriscoyier@gmail.com)
Hi guys,
bigup for the job made.
What about a connection with Mobistar (belgium)
I thing they are in the same family as big french carrier
keep us posted!
thanks
I just love this service!
Will ’3 UK’ be added any time?
I don’t see Movistar(Spain) they are the national carrier’s service. Looking forward to signing up.
Chris…thankyou! This is awesome
I’ll probably be the only person to ask this, but in South Africa we have Vodacom (which I think could be part of Vodafone). If you need me to find out anything from them let me know
What?! None in Finland?
Does the Virgin Mobile one work in the UK?
I can’t get it to work…
I’ve changed mine to T-mobile(Uk) at the moment because I’ve found out in the UK, Virgin basically resell T-Mobiles’s services… I’ll see if that works!
I love the idea of this service!
Will ‘3 Hong Kong’ be added any time soon?
Would love to see Telia (Sweden) added