Use email-to-text gateway service

Accordint to what I’ve read it is not necesary when importing a list to also include the domaim name for the carrier, is this correct?

Yes, it is correct. You don’t have to include the domain name.

There are some text messaging software out their that utilize a carrier’s email-to-text gateway service. The gateway is identified by a carrier’s domain name. So if you email 12345678900@some-carrier.com, the email will be forwarded by the service and sent to the phone as a text message. Actually, before we have Voicent BroadcastBySMS software, some of our customers use Voicent BroadcastByEmail, as a work around, to send text messages.

There are two major drawbacks of using the email-to-text gateway service:

1). You need to know which carrier a cell phone number belongs to. (that’s why you need to specify the domain name) This information may not be available.
2). Email to text forwarding is not that reliable and may have a long delay.

Voicent BroadcastBySMS software does not use email-to-text gateway. It sends text message by the SMS modem directly to a carrier’s cellular network.