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Many cellular carriers assign email addresses to cellular phone
numbers and support SMS or text messaging by email. You don't need
to install special add-ins in Outlook to send text messages,
but the recipient will need text messaging enabled on their cellular
plan (most carriers enable it by default) and have a phone capable of receiving text messages
(most new phones are text-capable). To use, compose a short email message using less than 160 total
characters in Outlook (or any email client) and address it to the
cellular number at the carrier's email domain. Remember to remove
your signature from the message before sending.
Note that some carriers will break apart larger messages into 160
character messages, others will deliver only the first 160
characters.
The phones only support plain text messages but the carriers
strip multipart HTML, so you don't need to remember to switch to
plain text format. Email sent to cell phones is billed to the
subscriber as a text message. |