Taking Action: Cell / Mobile Phone Alerts

Receiving a short text message, SMS message, or even a full-blown email message on a mobile phone today is easier than ever and costs less than a call on a pay-phone.  In Europe, most mobile phone carriers enable SMS for messaging and in the United States and Canada, cell phone carriers provide each and every phone an email address, making the sending of email to a mobile phone a snap.

Cellular phone carriers in the United States offer customers an easy way to send an email text message. Most mobile phone carriers assign an email address to the cell phone in the form phonenumber@carrier.com/net:

US and Canadian Mobile Phone Email Formats
Carrier	Cell Phone Number Format	Message Length
Cingular	0001112222@mobile.mycingular.net	160 characters - From, Message, Call Me Back At phone number and Subject
AT&T Wireless	0001112222@mobile.att.net	110 chars for message. Subject length restriction is not provided by AT&T
Nextel	0001112222@page.nextel.com	140 characters for message
Sprint PCS	0001112222@messaging.sprintpcs.com	160 characters for message
T-Mobile	0001112222@tmomail.net	140 characters for message
Verizon Wireless	0001112222@vtext.com	160 characters for message

Try sending your US or Canadian based mobile phone an email with this   free online tool (not responsible for fees imposed by any mobile phone carrier).

The following is a short list of Email to SMS services that you can use to send email alerts to your SMS enabled phone or device:

SMS enabled mobile phones outside of the United States, can still receive email alerts through SMS services:

Not being in front of a computer at all times, does not mean that you cannot be connected.  By using your mobile phone as a always-connected device, problems can be resolved quickly when notification is a phone call away.