Email to SMS codes for phone carriers
Below are the phone carrier codes to send email messages to someone’s phone as a text MMS/SMS. Theoretically, you can use this as a workaround to send picture messages or effectively double your plan’s SMS allotment by sending through the iphone’s email application. Next step is to find a lookup service to match your friends with their carriers.
Alltel = xxxxxxxxxx@message.alltel.com
AT&T = xxxxxxxxxx@text.att.net
Boost Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@myboostmobile.com
Cingular (AT&T) = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.mycingular.com
Einstein PCS = xxxxxxxxxx@einsteinmms.com
Sprint = xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@tmomail.net
US Cellular = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.uscc.net
Verizon Wireless = xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com
Virgin Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@vmobl.com
As of this post, I have not tested this. I am curious to see if the received message contains the sender’s phone number, the email address, or some other random string (like the iphone receives MMSes). It seems they would block these addresses to thwart SMS spam abuse.
Some services that perform carrier lookup:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/LNPControllerServlet?path=lnppromo1 http://phonenumbers.addresses.com/phone.php
Must be logged in as an ATT client:
https://www.wireless.att.com/olam/m2mLookupAction.olamexecute?dispatchEvent=handleM2MLookup&reportActionEvent=A_CRP_M2M_LOOKUP_SUB