E-mail To SMS Providers List (Easiest Way To SMS-Enable Web Applications)
You remember Uptime Robot, a free website uptime monitoring service that we launched few weeks ago.
While building it, we're looking for a free & easy way for adding SMS support to the application which would notify users when their websites were down (and back up).
There are great APIs around but they are paid & we experienced that the best way to do this is using the e-mail to SMS gateways of mobile providers.
But we needed a list of providers that had support for e-mail to SMS.
After digging, we found several lists, realized that every provider has a different format where some requires a prefix & other can require a suffix, digit requirements differ, etc.
At the end we merged lists, removed invalid entries, added new ones with the help of Uptime Robot users & created a flexible MySQL table that included this data.
Now, we're sharing it (as SQL & CSV formats) at the Uptime Robot website so you can easily add SMS support to your web applications & won't lose the time we already did.
P.S. Note that there may still be some invalid entries that we couldn't get a feedback yet. If you think there are, please share them in comments, we'll updating them & always be sharing the latest version of the data.
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Mobile SMS
- Filed under: Extras, Goodies, MIT License, Mobile Development, Uptime Robot
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10 Responses for "E-mail To SMS Providers List (Easiest Way To SMS-Enable Web Applications)"
Awesome work! thanks!
I’m ready to use
Interesting, I was just looking at this for mobile web apps,
One thing I discovered is that this service, email to sms is not always free for your users (with fido you need to pay to have it)
Also, I do not get the message directly, I have to type read in the sms to get the real sms message which is clunky to say the least…
the data for India is not the latest and almost everyone listed under india does not do business now. for example BPL Mobile, hutch, orange etc.
Awesome work, pls keep doing the good stuff
This is a pretty good idea but I tested the Vodafone & O2 ones for the UK about 30 mins ago and neither have come through yet.
Looks similar to this one: http://bit.ly/1XnUwI
but as other has commented many of these service are no longer available either due to change of ownership or simply because the service was mis-used. Only way to make sure is to use a real SMS account and I do give full credit to the work Uptime is doing and the service they provide but using a list like this is just not pro enough in my view it takes a piece of your trustworthiness
@dotcompals & @James,
Thanks very mcuch for the update. We’ll be checking the providers you mentioned.
@alra,
I see your point with non-working SMS providers. On the other hand, I believe we’ll be able to fix the list soon with the help of readers/users and this seems to be the only way to provide free SMS messages.
However, we can add a paid SMS alert option that uses a reliable gateway and users can decide to choose the one they prefer.
let me know, if I can help in anyway to gather info. I am located in India.
@dotcompals,
It would be great if you can share the latest available providers in India and their formats.
@ Umut M
That would be a perfect solution (free + paid SMS)