Sending a text message on your mobile costs approximately 10 cents, while recieving a text message goes for about the same. At this rate, a short conversation with one person could cost you around 1.00. Add a few other people to the mix, and you’re racking up a pretty penny’s worth of phone charges…. which is silly if you think about how little it costs your mobile carrier.
Let’s rectify that.
Suppose you’re at your computer, and you’d like to to text your buddy Jack, whose phone number is (123)456-7890. Also, you know he uses AT&T. Instead of grabbing your mobile, log into gchat and send an email to: 1234567890@txt.att.net. Jack’ll recieve your message, and be able to reply to it, which will get sent to your gmail address. Fun.
Here are some common carrier addresses:
AT&T
[10-digit phone number]@txt.att.net
[10-digit phone number]@mms.att.net (MMS)
[10-digit phone number]@cingularme.com
Sprint
[10-digit phone number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com
[10-digit phone number]@pm.sprint.com (MMS)
T-Mobil
[10-digit phone number]@tmomail.net
Verizon
[10-digit phone number]@vtext.com
[10-digit phone number]@vzwpix.com (MMS)
This may be moot awfully soon since gmail is integrating text messaging into it’s gchat function awfully soon. However, if you don’t use gmail or gchat, or just don’t want to employ their new service, sending texts via email might save you a few bucks over the course of a few months. Especially when you want to send those mass holiday texts to everyone you know… and their mothers.
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1 /\jay // Dec 2, 2008 at 11:08 pm
jumpin g-hosaphat. pretty sweet
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