Cingular SMS

If Cingular is your cellular service provider, here's the lowdown on how to use SMS with your phone.


Note: Some subscribers may have email addresses in an older format, 10-digit-number@mobile.mycingular.com. Example: 4155551212@mobile.mycingular.com

Other subscribers' addresses may be in the format 10-digit-number@mmode.com. Example: 4155551212@mmode.com

Check with Cingular customer service (dial 611 on your Cingular phone) if you're not sure.

Updated 1/3/2007

Comments:
For whatever reason, @cingularme.com does not work on my phone. Another option is @mobile.mycingular.com. Also, there is a separate address to send pictures (as opposed to just text)... @mms.mycingular.com.
 
Don't forget about ##########@mmode.com for former at&t wireless phones.
 
After sending test messages and MMS messages from my phone, I was able to receive replies to the addresses
####@pics.cingularme.com and ####@mms.mycingular.com with useful Subject: and From: headers, but now those do not seem to work, and only mail filteres through the ####@cingularme.com filter with anonymized 'From:101001017' headers seem to arrive.

(I am using Cingular through Trakfone, so that may be an issue.)
 
who pays for the sending half of the cost when you send form e-mail? Does the receiver pay double?

If teleflip is free does that mean its free to receive too?

Can a phone setup to receive text msgs but not e-mail still do this receiving of e-mail as a text msg?
 
Anonymous: When you send an SMS message to someone via email, you're not charged. And the recepient is only charged their usual SMS message fee to receive the text message (they are not double-charged). The carriers only charge to *send* or *receive* text messages *on your phone*.

Teleflip is free to send but the recipient will still get charged for receiving the text message. (Unless they have an unlimited SMS account.)

And if you can receive SMS messages, you can use your phone's SMS address as a way of receiving ordinary Internet emails, yes. However, the messages you receive will be very short (depending on the carrier's limits for text messages) and you may not be able to reply.
 
It appears that cingular has taken out the ability to send text messages from their site. www.cingular.com/sendamessage no longer works!
 
Cingular doesn't appear to want to keep customers. Anyone up to switching to a service that cares about what the client wants?
 
charge to send sms, i understand.. but charge to receive sms? weird.....
 
##########@mobile.mycingular.net works for me, not .com
 
I agree...it is so weird to charge to recieve SMS messages....what if someone keeps sending email to you on your cell using @cingularme.com ....you end up paying...

if I were to get a call that I do not want to accept...I can reject it...and not loose airtime or pay if I am going over my quota....

what is the way to "rject" a SMS that you do not wish to recieve...-:(

Cingular...very bad on this one...
 
if you follow your own link in the instructions, you'll find the current address is now yournumber@txt.att.net.
 
"what is the way to "rject" a SMS that you do not wish to recieve...-:("

At least for me, just don't open it. If I don't actually open the SMS, I'm not charged for it. I even have a friend who has a phone that scrolls the contents of a message across the screen in the "inbox" view, but as long as she reads them that way rather than actually opening them, she's never charged for receiving them. So she never opens texts.
 
afaik, you are charged the txt fee whether you open it or not...though I don't know...

As far as the address(es)...I think the latest is 10-digit#@txt.att.net

Does anyone know if that address will accept attachments though, say a ringtone (mp3)? :)
 
what if i recieve a text and not open it does it still count as an opened test
 
The new addresses are ##########@txt.att.net for SMS and ##########@mms.att.net for MMS messages.
 
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Cingular is now just AT&T, the new address to the phones are:

9999999999@txt.att.net
 
Just to let you know, any "former Cingular" customer is going to have the same e-mail as an at&t subscriber. To e-mail a text it's the phone number @txt.att.net and for mms it's the phone number @mms.att.net You can find this info on at&t's website. www.wireless.att.com I know this information is correct because I work as a customer care rep for the company.
 

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