Background

These days many people are ditching their email and corresponding principally through their cell phones.

This sometimes creates a problem for people who still hold on to a dumb cell phone or who simply can not hold a long conversation thread through cell phones.

There are ways to bridge that impedance mismatch.

In this post, we discuss targeting the receiving partner’s cell phone through their phone provider’s email gateway.

Steps

The first step is to use the receiver’s phone number to determine his\her Cell Phone Carrier.

Once the Carrier is known, map that carrier to the Carrier’s email domain name.

Tools

There are various websites that allow one to enter a phone number and receive in return the matched carrier.

Sample Web sites

Here are some of those web sites:

1. Free Carrier Lookup
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2. Carrier Lookup
   • Links
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   • Features
     • Maximum of 1 free lookup each day
3. Whitepages – Reverse Phone
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4. TextMagic.com
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5. Reverse Phone Ferret
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6. Phone Validator
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7. Fone Finder
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Alternate

1. To find alternate carriers please google on the following search tags
   • Carrier Lookup

Carrier Domain Name

Here is a current mapping of the providers to email suffix.

Provider	Email Address-Text	Email Address-Video	Sample
AT&T	@txt.att.net	@mms.att.net	1234567890@txt.att.net 1234567890@mms.att.net
Cingular Wireless	@mobile.mycingular.net	@mobile.mycingular.net	1234567890@mobile.mycingular.net
Cricket	@sms.mycricket.com	@mms.mycricket.com	1234567890@sms.mycricket.com 1234567890@mms.mycricket.com
Metro PCS [2017-Nov-2nd – Striked Out]	@metropcs.sms.us	@metropcs.sms.us	1234567890@metropcs.sms.us
Metro PCS [2022-May-22nd – Striked Out]	@mymetropcs.com	@mymetropcs.com	1234567890@mymetropcs.com
Metro PCS [2022-May-2nd – Added]	@tmomail.net	@tmomail.net	1234567890@mymetropcs.com
Nextel	@messaging.nextel.com	@messaging.nextel.com	1234567890@messaging.nextel.com
Qwest	@qwestmp.com	@qwestmp.com	1234567890@qwestmp.com
Sprint	@messaging.sprintpcs.com	@messaging.sprintpcs.com	1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile	@tmomail.net	@tmomail.net	1234567890@tmomail.net
Verizon	@vtext.com	@vtext.com	1234567890@vtext.com
Virgin	@vmobl.com	@vmobl.com	1234567890@vmobl.com
U.S. Cellular	@email.uscc.net	@email.uscc.net	1234567890@email.uscc.net

Sample

White Phone – Reverse Lookup

Free Carrier Lookup

References

1. Cheatography – Use email to Send SMS-Text Messages Cheat Sheet by Davidpol
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2. AT & T – Send email as text message
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3. SMS-411
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