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Re: RCS messaging

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In comp.mobile.android, on Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:11:30 -0400, micky
<NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

>
>>I'm in the USA and while there are essentially only 3 major carriers, all
>>of whom have an SMS-to-Email gateway, I agree with Frank that it's almost
>>unused here (as far as I can tell from my own personal experience).
>
>I don't want to have to turn on my phone to send a text, so for the one
>or two people I write to often, I've found the email address of their
>phones, and I use email from the PC and they get a text.
>
>Then when they reply to me with a text, I get an email.  It's very
>convenient. 

This only covers USA companies, but i read here that email to text is
not common elswwhere.  

what is cellular provider for this number
https://www.ipqualityscore.com/free-carrier-lookup
https://www.hlrlookup.com/
And probably, but I havenet tried it
https://freecarrierlookup.com/

The first one is the best, because it only needs the phone number and it
provides the carrier number and the email domain for emailing to the
phone: 
  Which cellular provider is connected to this cell phone number?
https://www.ipqualityscore.com/free-carrier-lookup
This one answers that question.  It's free and gives a lot of  other
information including the email address if you want to send a text from
your email program.   For some reason they call it the SMS Domain Format
I save these in my address book like regular email addresses.  For the
one for David, my "nickname" is DavidT. 

I have a friend and when I text her this way, and she answers me, I get
an email, not a text.    It's great.   Never have to turn on the phone. 

And it's great if you need to send a message now to people who are out
all day and only read their email when they get home.  And for people
who no longer read their email at all.   I gather the number of these is
increasing.    It's ironic that there used to be only two ways to reach
someone, mail and a fixed-location phone (and Western Union and a
personal messenger, but I'm not counting those), and now that there are
so many other ways, it's harder to get some people than it was before.
:-D

https://freecarrierlookup.com/
 This one gives a lot less information except it gives two email
addresses.  SMS and MMS

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