The SMS They may seem somewhat obsolete, especially considering that messaging applications such as WhatsApp or Telegram are the order of the day and it is almost difficult for us to find someone who does not use these applications. However, on many occasions sending an SMS can get us out of trouble.
We are going to show you how you can send SMS totally free thanks to the websites that we have discovered. You will not need any additional configuration and you will be able to do it both from your PC and directly from the mobile you want, do not miss it.
What are SMS? A little history
To start with, let's learn something about SMS. To begin with, the name responds to the acronym of English Short Message Service, in Spanish it would be Short Messaging Service. This is quite clear to us because the messages allow us a certain number of characters to avoid sending several, and this is how the «adapted» language emerged.
This messaging system has its reason for being in mobile phones, although in some devices such as landlines and cabins, the sending of this type of household is also allowed that are sent through the telephone network, and not through the internet (as a general rule).
This SMS service was invented in 1985 by Matti Makkonen, just at the same time as the already mythical GSM digital mobile phone. The first SMS message was sent in the United Kingdom on December 3, 1992 through a PC under the Vodafone GSM network and the text sent could not be other than "Merry Christmas".
With the arrival of instant messaging applications, widely extended since 2010, SMS has fallen into considerable disuse. However, at the end of the 1990s and in the 2000s, their use through the usual unlimited plans in the United States of America practically turned them into a chat.
The best sites to send free SMS
Globphone
We started with Globfone, one of the oldest websites that offers a tool to send SMS completely free of charge.
For this we will only have to enter the website of Globphone, and it will ask us first of all for the country of the SMS recipient, this will be done to verify the best method of sending the SMS according to the platform.
Once the country has been selected, we simply add the corresponding international prefix (although as a general rule the web will include it automatically), and then the telephone number to which we want to send the SMS. Of course, we must mention that this website is entirely in English.
We will not need any kind of registration, and this is an advantage. However, Globfone has some added features such as phone calls and video calls. These have an added cost and we will have to decide ourselves if we need to use the service. Finally, we will simply enter the text and the web will inform us of the status of the shipment.
TextEm
We go with another very popular website, although in this case it is geographically limited to the United States of America and Canada, that is, it will only be compatible if we want to send SMS to a phone number in these countries indicated above.
To begin we are going to enter the website of TextEm which is compatible with more than 100 different teleoperators. An example is that it allows us certain characteristics that we cannot find on other websites, such as that we can set up a free TextEm mailbox to not only send SMS, but also receive them.
In this case, once we enter the web, we will not have to select the country, simply at the top we are going to enter the phone number. In the next box they offer us to enter an email, but it is not an essential element, in general we will be able to send the SMS without any prior registration.
Below where you request the Mobile Carrier What we are going to do is look for the telephone service provider that corresponds to the telephone we have placed. It is possible that this section will be filled in automatically when selecting the number. Y finally we are going to send the message, without forgetting that we have a character counter below.
Open Texting Online
We are going now with this curious alternative that is also available completely free of charge and does not require any registration, so we can send SMS anonymously.
We are simply going to enter the website of Open Texting Online. In this case, Open Texting Online offers an incredible list of countries with which it is fully compatible, however, in Spain it seems that it works only with Movistar and Vodafone, so sending SMS to other telephone companies can generate errors.
When entering the web, it will ask us to select the country of the SMS recipient as well as the telephone company, although the latter can be ignored. Then we put the telephone number of the recipient of the SMS and put the message in the text box.
It is as easy to use as the rest of the systems of which we have spoken previously. The truth is that any of the services that we have mentioned here seems to me to be fully recommended, now it will be up to you which of all the services that we have proposed here best meets your needs.
SendSMSNow
This is one of the few applications on our list that has a registration system. In return, it will allow us to adjust our profile, send messages to groups of people (at a cost of one cent per message) and some other facilities that may interest us.
SendSMSNow It has no geographical limitation and in principle we can send messages to any phone number in the world as long as we identify it correctly. As an advantage, when creating the account we will activate an SMS mailbox that will serve us to register on websites and similar matters.
Good use is important
We remind you that on the internet there is no anonymity Therefore, you must use the tools that we have always explained here within the legal limits. Using these free SMS sending systems to harass or commit criminal actions is not recommended and can end badly.
However, you can take advantage of the system to communicate with payment services, manage subscriptions and even to manage your records on certain websites, so Make the most of these tools that we have brought you here today to make your life easier, surely you know how to use them.