If you know the carrier, you can usually send an email to the provider's SMS
gateway. If you don't know the carrier, you're going to have to pay - there
are no free cross-carrier gateway solutions (or at least there weren't any the
last time I went looking for them).
In my app that needs this, I have a setup screen where an admin can put in
their phone number, and they select their carrier. I use this bit of HTML to
gather that info, and then I drop the value into my db record as a string.
When I need to send the email, I substitute their phone# for the NUMBER bit.
Note that I've only really tested the major US carriers here. The rest came
from a wikipedia article I found...
<select name="mobileCarrier" id="mobileCarrier">
<option value="" selected>(select)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">AT&T Wireless</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Nextel (US)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">T-Mobile (US)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Verizon</option>
<option value="[email protected]">7-11 Speakout(GSM)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Airtel (Andhra Pradesh, India)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Airtel (Karnataka, India)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Airtel Wireless (Montana,
USA)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Alaska Communications Systems</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Alltel Wireless</option>
<option value="[email protected]">aql</option>
<option value="[email protected]">AT&T Enterprise Paging</option>
<option value="[email protected]">BigRedGiant Mobile Solutions</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Bell Mobility & Solo Mobile</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Boost Mobile</option>
<option value="[email protected]">BPL Mobile</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Cellular One (Dobson)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Cingular (Postpaid)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Centennial Wireless</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Cincinnati Bell</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Claro (Brasil)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Claro (Nicaragua)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Comcel</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Cricket</option>
<option value="[email protected]">CTI</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Emtel</option>
<option value="[email protected]">eOcean</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Esendex</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Fido</option>
<option value="[email protected]">General Communications Inc.</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Globalstar</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Helio</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Illinois Valley Cellular</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Iridium</option>
<option value="[email protected]">i wireless</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Koodo Mobile</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Mediaburst</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Meteor</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Mero Mobile</option>
<option value="[email protected]">MetroPCS</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Movicom</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Mobitel</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Movistar</option>
<option value="[email protected]">MTN</option>
<option value="[email protected]">MTS</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Nextel (México)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Nextel (Argentina)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Orange Polska</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Personal</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Plateau Wireless</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Plus GSM</option>
<option value="[email protected]">President's Choice</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Qwest</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Rogers</option>
<option value="[email protected]">SL Interactive</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Sasktel</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Setar Mobile email (Aruba)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Sprint (PCS)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Sprint (Nextel)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Suncom</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Sunrise</option>
<option value="[email protected]">T-Mobile (Austria)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">T-Mobile (UK)/option>
<option value="[email protected]">Telus Mobility</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Thumb Cellular</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Tigo (Formerly Ola)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Tracfone (prepaid)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Unicel</option>
<option value="[email protected]">US Cellular</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Vivo</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Virgin Mobile (Canada)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Virgin Mobile (USA)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">Vodacom</option>
<option value="[email protected]">YCC</option>
<option value="[email protected]">MobiPCS (Hawaii only)</option>
<option value="[email protected]">SMSLink.ro</option>
</select>
On May 31, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Ameya Beri wrote:
> Well I am in India and I want a free service where in i can just send SMSes.
> I am a student hence cannot afford paid APIS.
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:21 PM, JH <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can easily be done with 3rd party api's. I personally like www.tropo.com
> but you could also check out twilio.com
>
> On May 31, 8:07 am, Andrius A <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Check Google Voice, it still hasn't got public api but you can try using
> > this library:http://code.google.com/p/pygooglevoice/
> >
> > On 31 May 2011 14:02, Ameya Beri <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > Is there any way we can send SMSes using the Google App Engine?
> > > Any API exposed by Google ??
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