Yahoo! has developed a way for Yahoo! email and instant messaging users to send SMS messages to cell phones. This advancement in technology allows people who don't even have cell phones to text for free. Yahoo! SMS allows both incoming and outgoing messages. Yahoo! has brought SMS messaging to a whole new level and is available to anyone who has a Yahoo! account.
SMS Texting With Yahoo! Email
- Open your Yahoo! email account and login using your username and password.
- Click the link on the top right that says "Compose Message," which will open your email with a new setup.
- Type the letter "T" on your keyboard.
- Select your country and a form will appear which will allow you to send a text message.
- Type in the cell phone number you wish to send an SMS text to, along with your message, into the text message form.
- Click the send button to send the SMS text to the cell phone.
List of Supported Wireless Carriers and Countries for Text Messaging
Yahoo! supports mobile text messaging (SMS) internationally. Yahoo! supports SMS for mobile devices in the following countries by the carriers indicated below. The messaging short codes are also listed for each carrier.
Canada: FIDO and ROGERS — 92466000, TELUS — 92466
India: AIRCEL, AIRTEL, IDEA, LOOP MOBILE, RELIANCE CDMA, RELIANCE GSM, SPICE, TATA, and VODAFONE — 25242
Indonesia: BAKRIE, EXCELCOM, and MOBILE8 — 9246, HUTCH3 — 92466, INDOSAT — 946, TELKOMSEL — 4246, SMART — 946
Kuwait: WATANIYA — 1411
Malaysia: CELCOM — 22235, DIGI — 32235, MAXIS — 32235
Pakistan: MOBILINK — 171
Philippines: GLOBE — 2258, Sun Cellular — 2466, SMART — 62580
Thailand: AIS — 4508040, DTAC — 1924668
United States: ATT, NEXTEL (including Sprint), SPRINT, T-MOBILE, US CELLULAR, VERIZON, and VIRGIN — 92466
Vietnam: HTMOBILE, MOBIFONE, S-FONE, VIETTEL, VINAPHONE, and GTEL — 8269
