# SMS service

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sms-service/187326>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 21, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sms-service/187326 "2010-04-21T18:22:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sms-service/187326/1 "2010-04-21T18:22:56Z")

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What’s a good SMS service to use? I want to start sending messages  
from my apps via SMS.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sms-service/187326/2 "2010-04-22T01:11:35Z")

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Doesn’t get any easier than Twilio.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sms-service/187326/3 "2010-04-22T03:25:42Z")

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Thanks so much - looks like I found what I was looking for.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sms-service/187326/4 "2010-04-22T23:58:43Z")

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Northband wrote:

> What’s a good SMS service to use? I want to start sending messages  
> from my apps via SMS.
> 
> Thanks!

Depends. In the U.S., you can just do this by e-mail – all mobile  
phone carriers have e-mail-to-SMS gateways at no extra charge. In other  
countries, that may not work.

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sms-service/187326/5 "2010-04-23T00:26:42Z")

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> Depends. In the U.S., you can just do this by e-mail – all mobile  
> phone carriers have e-mail-to-SMS gateways at no extra charge. In other  
> countries, that may not work.
> 
> ## Best,
> 
> Marnen Laibow-Koser  
> [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

Any name of an email-to-sms provider? I’m outside US and my mobile phone  
company does not offer such service.