As a public service, here is a guide to sending text messages between various phone network providers. Please don’t send this to my niece! Thanks to Dave Nathanson for collecting these.
AT&T Wireless
(your number)@mmode.com
Cingular
(your number)@mobile.mycingular.com
Nextel
(your number)@messaging.nextel.com
Quest
(your number)@qwestmp.com
Sprint
(your number)@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile
(your number)@tmomail.net
(if you set up a name, it is name@tmail.com)
Verizon
(your number)@vtext.com
A reader writes in: [or you could just txt to their phone number without the appendage, there are 3rd party clearing houses for SMS that provide interop by routing tables and predefined number blocks]
The T-Mobile email/alias, is that for the US only, or can it work in the UK too. (I think also Tmobile is in Germany)
Dan
http://www.freebiesms.co.uk
If you set up a name at Verizon, it’s name@vtext.com.