I have found email-to-sms to be infrequently, yet sporadically unreliable across all carriers. I would not rely on it for anything critical.
-- ME2 On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Louis, Joe <jlo...@guardianalarm.com>wrote: > Anyone having problems sending an email to an AT&T cell phone as an SMS > (via email address xxx-xxx-x...@text.att.net)? All of a sudden, our > messages are not reaching our cell phones. This just affects our AT&T > phones. > > Some customer service person at AT&T told our people that they are > transitioning people away from email messages to cell phones as text. We pay > for an SMS package. I’m clueless as to why they would care about the source > when we pay for the SMS volume. > > Anyone else experiencing this? How are you generating SMS messages to > non-mobile-email-enable devices? We’ve always preached that SMS is not a > guaranteed service/delivery so time sensitive needs shouldn’t be pushed > there, but we’re going to have to come up with another deployment if AT&T > sticks to their guns. > > -Joe Louis > > >
