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6.9.10

Sending free SMS online

Ever wondered how websites that let you send free sms work? This article explains how these "send free sms" websites work and tells you what to look out for if you want to build your own free sms website.

This is the first part of our 5-part cookbook series which shows you everything you need to know to build your own sms sending website.
The second part of this cookbook 2 shows you which operators provide free SMS gateways and how you can use this to build your own "send free sms" website.
The third part of this cookbook 3 explains some techniques that you can use to improve the success of sending SMS using email to SMS gateways.
Everyone wants free sms sending scripts - why?

If you take a quick look at any of the webmaster forums you will see that there are a lot of people interested in running free SMS websites. I regularly see requests for 'sms sending scripts'. So why all this interest?

Its simple - a huge amount of people are searching the Internet for sites where they can send free sms. If you build a site offering free sms then you will get a lot of eyeballs. Just have a look at Google Trends 4 and you see that more people search for free SMS than free email. Also the trend indicate that a lot of these searches are coming from developing countries such as India, Pakistan, etc.

So if you build a website offering free SMS and manage to use some clever SEO tricks then you will get a huge amount of traffic. Stick some advertising on the site and you could get a nice little revenue stream from it.

Warning - dont pay through your nose

If you get only one thing out of this article I hope that I convince you to never, never pay loads of your hard earned cash for a free SMS sending script. There are loads of unscrupulous people out there that try to mystify the whole process of send free SMS. They want you to believe its hard and takes a lot of work to make such a script. Well I just want to debunk that whole mis truth!! Its very easy to create a website for sending free SMS. This article will show you how.

Fundamentals behind sending free SMS

Most scripts that promise to send free SMS actually use the same simple method behind the scenes. They simply send an email to a gateway provided by a phone company. Some (but not all) phone companies have whats called an email to SMS gateway and they provide this to allow people to send an email that gets translated into an SMS and sent to one of their subscribers.

Yes - its that simple. All you need is a script that can send an email to an email address. OK - theres a few little details but more on those later.

I just wanted to point out that there are a lot of reputable SMS sending websites and script writers that use other more reliable of delivering SMS. I am not in any way criticizing them. What I am criticizing is anyone who tries to sell you a simple script that sends free SMS using the phone companies email to sms gateways and want you to pay big money.

The method sounds good - whats the catch?

Yeah - sounds great. Free SMS and all you have to do is send an email to an email address. Too easy! Well its easy but its not a very reliable method of delivering SMS. There are 3 reasons why I dont like this method:
Limited Phone Company Support

Not all phone companies in the world provide an email to sms gateway. Some in the US do. And India also. But there are not a lot of phone companies in other countries that provide the gateways. Therefore, you cant deliver to every country
Knowing the destination carrier

The second reason I dont like this method is because the sender of the SMS needs to know the destination carrier. Yeah - like I'd know for sure what carrier my friend is on. Who asks their friends regular if they have changed carriers and with number portability people can change carriers and keep their numbers.
Receiver not allowed to receive

The last reason I dont like this method is because, in most cases, the receives needs to make a request to his phone company before he/she is allowed received SMS via the phone company email to sms gateway. If you think about it, this is only fair because in some countries the receiver actually gets charged for receiving SMS.

How can I tell if a script uses this simple method?

Its very easy to tell if a website (or script) uses this the simple mechanism of sending an email to phone company gateway. All you need to do is look for sites that ask you to select the destination carrier.

Any website that uses other reliable delivery mechanisms will not ask you to enter the destination carrier. They wont need the destination carrier as they be sending their SMS via proper connectivity to the carriers rather than using the email to sms gateways provided by some phone companies.

How can I use this simple method?

So you have heard me talk about the disadvantages of using the free email gateway mechanism but maybe you still want to know how to create a website to do this. Thats OK. I'll be explaining over the next few posts how to create your own free sms sending website. The next post of the 5 part cookbook will outline how to use the phone companies email to sms gateways.

16.7.10

Free SMS Send in International

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Service Providers (SMS Gateway)
The following text messaging service providers are supported.

Aliant (NBTel, MTT, NewTel, and Island Tel) (from: 11, msg: 140, total: 140)
Enter your phone number. Message is sent to number@chat.wirefree.ca

Alltel (from: 50, msg: 116, total: 116)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@message.alltel.com.

Ameritech (ACSWireless) (from: 120, msg: 120, total: 120)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@paging.acswireless.com

Arch Wireless (from: 15, msg: 240, total: 240)
Enter your phone number. Sent via http://www.arch.com/message/ (assumes blank PIN)

AT&T (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@txt.att.net

AU by KDDI (from: 20, msg: 10000, total: 10000)
Enter your phone number. Goes to username@ezweb.ne.jp

BeeLine GSM (from: 50, msg: 255, total: 255)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@sms.beemail.ru

Bell Mobility Canada (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
Enter your phone number, including the 1 prefix. Goes to number@txt.bellmobility.ca

Bellsouth (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@bellsouth.cl

BellSouth Mobility (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@blsdcs.net

Blue Sky Frog (from: 30, msg: 120, total: 120)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@blueskyfrog.com

Boost (from: 30, msg: 120, total: 120)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@myboostmobile.com

Cellular South (from: 50, msg: 155, total: 155)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@csouth1.com

CellularOne (Dobson) (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@mobile.celloneusa.com

CellularOne West (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@mycellone.com

Centennial Wireless (from: 10, msg: 110, total: 110)
Enter your phone number. Sent via http://www.centennialwireless.com

Cincinnati Bell (from: 20, msg: 50, total: 50)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@gocbw.com

Claro (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@clarotorpedo.com.br

Comviq (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@sms.comviq.se

Dutchtone/Orange-NL (from: 15, msg: 150, total: 150)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@sms.orange.nl

Edge Wireless (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@sms.edgewireless.com

EinsteinPCS / Airadigm Communications (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@einsteinsms.com

EPlus (from: 20, msg: 480, total: 480)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@smsmail.eplus.de.

Estonia Mobile Telefon (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Sent via webform.

Fido Canada (from: 15, msg: 140, total: 140)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@fido.ca.

Golden Telecom (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number or nickname. Messages are sent to number@sms.goldentele.com

Idea Cellular (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@ideacellular.net

Kyivstar (from: 30, msg: 160, total: 160)
Sent by addressing the message to number@sms.kyivstar.net

LMT (from: 30, msg: 120, total: 120)
Enter your username. Goes to username@sms.lmt.lv

Manitoba Telecom Systems (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
10-digit phone number. Goes to @text.mtsmobility.com

Meteor (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@sms.mymeteor.ie

Metro PCS (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
10-digit phone number. Goes to number@mymetropcs.com

Metrocall Pager (from: 120, msg: 120, total: 120)
10-digit phone number. Goes to number@page.metrocall.com

MobileOne (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@m1.com.sg

Mobilfone (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@page.mobilfone.com

Mobility Bermuda (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@ml.bm

MTS Primtel (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Sent via web gateway.

Netcom (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@sms.netcom.no

Nextel (from: 50, msg: 126, total: 126)
10-digit phone number. Goes to 10digits@messaging.nextel.com. Note: do not use dashes in your phone number.

NPI Wireless (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@npiwireless.com.

NTC (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Sent via web gateway.

O2 (formerly BTCellnet) (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
Enter O2 username - must be enabled first at http://www.o2.co.uk. Goes to username@o2.co.uk.

O2 M-mail (formerly BTCellnet) (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
Enter phone number, omitting initial zero - must be enabled first by sending an SMS saying "ON" to phone number "212". Goes to +44[number]@mmail.co.uk.

Optus (from: 20, msg: 114, total: 114)
Enter your phone number. Goes to @optusmobile.com.au

Orange (UK) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to @orange.net. You will need to create a user account at orange.net first.

Oskar (from: 20, msg: 320, total: 320)
Enter your phone number. Goes to @mujoskar.cz

Other (from: 15, msg: 100, total: 100)
If your provider isn't supported directly, enter the email address that sends you a text message in phone number field. To be safe, the entire message is sent in the body of the message, and the length limit is really short. We'd prefer you give us information about your provider so we can support it directly.

Pagenet (from: 20, msg: 220, total: 240)
10-digit phone number (or gateway and pager number separated by a period). Goes to number@pagenet.net.

PCS Rogers (from: 20, msg: 125, total: 125)
10-digit phone number. Goes to number@pcs.rogers.com. Requires prior registration with PCS Rogers.

Personal Communication (Sonet) (from: 20, msg: 150, total: 150)
Enter your phone number. Goes to sms@pcom.ru with your number in the subject line.

Plus GSM Poland (from: 20, msg: 620, total: 620)
10-digit phone number. Goes to number@text.plusgsm.pl.

Powertel (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
10-digit phone number. Goes to number@ptel.net

Primtel (from: 20, msg: 150, total: 150)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@sms.primtel.ru

PSC Wireless (from: 20, msg: 150, total: 150)
Enter your phone number. Goes to number@sms.pscel.com

Qualcomm (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
Enter your username. Goes to username@pager.qualcomm.com

Qwest (from: 14, msg: 100, total: 100)
10-digit phone number. Goes to @qwestmp.com

Safaricom (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
Goes to @safaricomsms.com

Satelindo GSM (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
Goes to @satelindogsm.com

SCS-900 (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
Goes to @scs-900.ru

Simple Freedom (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
Goes to @text.simplefreedom.net

Skytel - Alphanumeric (from: 15, msg: 240, total: 240)
Enter your 7-digit pin number as your number and your message will be mailed to pin@skytel.com

Smart Telecom (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to @mysmart.mymobile.ph

Smarts GSM (from: 11, msg: 70, total: 70)
Enter your phone number. Sent via http://www.samara-gsm.ru/scripts/smsgate.exe

Southern Linc (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your 10-digit phone number. Goes to @page.southernlinc.com

Sprint PCS (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your 10-digit phone number. Goes to @messaging.sprintpcs.com

Sprint PCS - Short Mail (from: 15, msg: 1000, total: 1000)
Enter your phone number. Goes to @sprintpcs.com

SunCom (from: 18, msg: 110, total: 110)
Enter your number. Email will be sent to number@tms.suncom.com.

SureWest Communications (from: 20, msg: 200, total: 200)
Enter your phone number. Message will be sent to number@mobile.surewest.com

SwissCom Mobile (from: 20, msg: 10000, total: 10000)
Enter your phone number. Message will be sent to number@bluewin.ch

T-Mobile Germany (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your number. Email will be sent to number@T-D1-SMS.de

T-Mobile Netherlands (from: 15, msg: 160, total: 160)
Send "EMAIL ON" to 555 from your phone, then enter your number starting with 316. Email will be sent to number@gin.nl

T-Mobile UK (from: 30, msg: 160, total: 160)
Messages are sent to number@t-mobile.uk.net

T-Mobile USA (from: 30, msg: 160, total: 160)
Messages are sent to number@tmomail.net

T-Mobile USA (Sidekick) (from: 30, msg: 10000, total: 10000)
Messages are sent to username@tmail.com

Tele2 Latvia (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
10-digit phone number. Goes to number@sms.tele2.lv.

Telefonica Movistar (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
10-digit phone number. Goes to number@movistar.net

Telenor (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
10-digit phone number. Goes to number@mobilpost.no.

Telia Denmark (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
8-digit phone number. Goes to number@gsm1800.telia.dk.

Telus Mobility (from: 30, msg: 120, total: 120)
10-digit phone number. Goes to 10digits@msg.telus.com.

The Phone House (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
10-digit phone number. Goes to number@sms.phonehouse.de.

TIM (from: 30, msg: 350, total: 350)
10-digit phone number. Goes to number@timnet.com.

UMC (from: 10, msg: 120, total: 120)
Sent by addressing the message to number@sms.umc.com.ua

Unicel (from: 10, msg: 120, total: 120)
Sent by addressing the message to number@utext.com

US Cellular (from: , msg: 150, total: 150)
Enter a 10 digit USCC Phone Number. Messages are sent to number@email.uscc.net

Verizon Wireless (from: 34, msg: 140, total: 140)
Enter your 10-digit phone number. Messages are sent via email to number@vtext.com.

Verizon Wireless (formerly Airtouch) (from: 20, msg: 120, total: 120)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@airtouchpaging.com. This is ONLY for former AirTouch customers. Verizon Wireless customers should use Verizon Wireless instead.

Verizon Wireless (myairmail.com) (from: 34, msg: 140, total: 140)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent via to number@myairmail.com.

Vessotel (from: 20, msg: 800, total: 800)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to roumer@pager.irkutsk.ru.

Virgin Mobile Canada (from: 20, msg: 140, total: 140)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@vmobile.ca.

Virgin Mobile USA (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@vmobl.com.

Vodafone Italy (from: 20, msg: 132, total: 132)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@sms.vodafone.it

Vodafone Japan (Chuugoku/Western) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@n.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Hokkaido) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@d.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Hokuriko/Central North) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@r.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Kansai/West -- including Osaka) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@k.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Kanto/Koushin/East -- including Tokyo) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@t.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Kyuushu/Okinawa) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@q.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Shikoku) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@s.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Touhoku/Niigata/North) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@h.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan (Toukai/Central) (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@c.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Spain (from: 20, msg: 90, total: 90)
Enter your username. Messages are sent to username@vodafone.es

Vodafone UK (from: 20, msg: 70, total: 90)
Enter your username. Messages are sent to username@vodafone.net

Weblink Wireless (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to @airmessage.net

WellCom (from: 20, msg: 160, total: 160)
Enter your phone number. Goes to @sms.welcome2well.com

WyndTell (from: 20, msg: 480, total: 500)
Enter username/phone number. Goes to @wyndtell.com