SMS text message to cellphone without carrier

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I have a cellphone number to which I'd like to send an SMS text message, but don't know the carrier?

Posted 22-May-10 2:58am

erik1060

Updated 29-Jun-10 18:38pm

Johnny J.

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Johnny J. 30-Jun-10 0:38am

Edited your question - you don't send emails to phones - you send text messages. Emails are sent to email accounts...

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MicahC · Answer 1 · 2010-06-29T15:50:00

Another way to tell what your phones carrier is by writing an SMS to your email account from the phone. To do this create a new text message, but send it to mail@somemail.com. Check your email, your phones carrier will be displayed in the "from" section. Hope this helps.
(some phones are not capable of doing this, although most phones are.)

Johnny J. · Answer 2 · 2010-06-29T18:40:00

Solution 3

Why do you need to know the carrier? That's irrelevant - simply send the message to the phone regardless of carrier...

Posted 29-Jun-10 18:40pm

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Christian Graus · Answer 3 · 2010-05-22T02:59:00

Solution 1

I'd imagine the carrier can be determined from the cell phone number, have you looked in to that ? What APIs do you use to send the email, are they carrier specific ?

Posted 22-May-10 2:59am

Christian Graus

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Johnny J. 30-Jun-10 0:42am

Reason for my vote of 1
No you can't - at least not in my country. Here all numbers can be transferred between all carriers, so there's no way to tell just from the number alone.