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One of my Twitter followers, Paul Fald, recently asked a similar question: 'Can anyone recommend a reliable and possibly FREE online SMS messaging site – sending to all UK mobiles?' Stuart Mitchell, a telecom professional made some suggestions, but he warned: 'please don't go free … you won't get QoS that way and have many headaches.' (For example, by sending GET to a chargeable number.) However, US-based readers can use AIM, or AOL Instant Messenger, which supports sending SMS messages to US mobile numbers free of charge. With 'reverse charge services', the recipient gets a free SMS alert, but they have to pay perhaps £1 to £3 to pick it up. You have to be a bit careful because some sites are 'free to send' but not necessarily 'free to receive'. (SMS Frog also says: 'Messages can be sent to United Kingdom mobile numbers exclusively', but I assume this means UK mobile numbers even if the phone is abroad.) Here, SMS Frog is much the easier of the two. The other four SMS messages failed to arrive within 12 hours, so again, you need to test whichever service you choose.īoth e-freesms and SMS Frog require you to fill in a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), which means typing some letters into a box. I tried half a dozen, and the two websites that delivered quickly were e-freesms and, about 10 minutes later, SMS Frog. There are quite a lot of these, and I don't know which is best.

#SEND FREE SMS MESSAGES FROM MY COMPUTER PC#

PC users generally use websites to send the odd free SMS text message. However, all the ones I looked at were commercial services aimed at volume users. Wikipedia has a big table of SMS gateways, which you can sort by region to get all the UK services together. (I believe both Vodafone and O2 have dropped similar services.) You can test it by sending yourself an SMS. T-Mobile used to offer this as a free service via and perhaps it still does.

In other words, the address will be something like where you replace the opening 0 with the UK country code, 44. Usually, you send the email to the international mobile phone number followed by the supplier's email address.

Many mobile networks and independent companies offer email-to-SMS gateways that do this, though the commercial ones charge for sending bulk texts. If your relatives can handle email, then the simplest idea is for them to use emails to send SMS messages to your phone.

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