Facebook Launches SMS Service for T-Mobile Users in the United States
Already available on AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Nextel, Boost, Virgin USA, and Cellular South, Facebook SMS service has just launched for T-Mobile users in the United States. Now, T-Mobile subscribers are able to sign up for Facebook’s SMS messaging service by activating their phone number in their Facebook Mobile settings.
Facebook’s business development team has been very busy recently building relationships with mobile carriers around the world. So far, Facebook SMS service is live on 36 carriers in 21 countries. The full list of carriers and countries where Facebook SMS is now live is below.
With Facebook’s SMS service, users can receive text message notifications when they receive Facebook messages, wall posts, status comments, friend requests, photo tags, or pokes. Users can restrict what times of day text messages are sent, as well as set a maximum number of text messages per day they want to receive.
In addition, Facebook recently launched three new SMS services for Facebook Pages as well. Now, users can become a fan of a Page by texting “fan username” to FBOOK, and fans can subscribe to SMS updates from Pages by clicking the “Subscribe to SMS Updates” link under the profile picture on any page. Page owners can now update their status through SMS as well.
SMS is an important component of Facebook’s mobile services, which collectively serve over 30 million users each month, according to Facebook. Mobile usage patterns vary greatly from country to country, but mobile is playing an increasingly important role in Facebook’s growth and engagement metrics in many countries around the world.
Here’s the full list of countries where Facebook has launched SMS service, and the carriers they have partnered with so far in each country:
Argentina
- Claro
Austria
- 3
Bolivia
- Tigo
Canada
- Bell Mobility
- Fido
- TELUS
- Rogers
- SaskTel
- MTS
- Virgin Mobile Canada
Chile
- Entel PCS
Colombia
- Tigo
Indonesia
- 3
- AXIS
- Telcomsel
India
- Tata Indicom
Macedonia
- Vip operator
Maldives
- Wataniya Telecom Maldives
Montenegro
- Pro Monte
New Zealand
- New Zealand Telecom
Philippines
- SMART
Pakistan
- Telenor
- Warid Telecom
Paraguay
- Claro
- Tigo
- Personal
Serbia
- Telenor
South Africa
- Vodacom
Sri Lanka
- Dialog Telecom
- Mobitel Sri Lanka
United Kingdom
- O2
- 3
- Orange
United States
- AT&T
- Verizon
- Sprint
- Nextel
- Boost
- Virgin USA
- Helio
- Cellular South
- T-Mobile
Uruguay
- Claro
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July 13th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Abit annoying when they support only a portion of a multinational brand/telecommunications company
They should really add T-Mobile UK and Virgin Mobile UK (both which has US arms which that is officially supported)
Also should add Vodaphone who is a big player in the network provider world
Vodaphone biggest markets include UK, Ireland and Australia but Vodaphone is in 25 markets – HQ is UK
UK ‘Multinational’ Mobile Network Market:
Orange (France & UK) as the main ones. The HQ is in France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(brand)
O2 as in Telefónica Europe includes several European States (including UK and Ireland) and also O2 Asia. Global HQ is in the UK
T-Mobile (T-Mobile Austria, T-Mobile Germany, T-Mobile USA, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile Netherlands, T-Mobile Czech Republic, T-Mobile Poland, T-Mobile Hungary, T-Mobile Croatia and T-Mobile Slovakia) Global HQ = Germany
3: (Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong and Macau, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.) HQ = Hong Kong
Virgin Mobile: US, Canada, France, India, South Africa and UK operations. HQ is the UK
July 16th, 2009 at 9:04 am
I am glad that Facebook finally launched th service for t-mobile, but there is a problem: T-Mobile doesn’t like 8-digit numbers. If I try to send to one, it fails. 8-digit numbers are required to read long messages, post comments, and many other things. (It uses FBOOK001, FBOOK002, etc.)
July 20th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Yes, T-Mobile doesnt like you sending out a text to a short number. T-Mobile told me the only way I could send messages to Facebook was to buy an internet plan, which I didn’t. You CAN send a photo from your T-Mobile phone as a text message. When you sign in to Facebook, click on settings, and then on mobile, then click on go to Facebook Mobile, which is on top right. You have a private email that you can upload pictures to. You then can send photo with text to Facebook and it will post as your status. Unfortunately, I do not see how anyone can comment on it and it sends back to your phone, but if you are just wanting to post something for everyone to know, this is a great way to do it. Say, you are at the hospital and want to post about the birth of your child.
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:18 am
[...] Friday also marks the beginning of Facebook text alerts. Customers can receive SMS alerting them when someone pokes them, adds them as a friend, sends them a message or writes on their wall – the usual Facebook text alerts. Facebook continues to work with mobile carriers to roll out support for its SMS services – just last week, T-Mobile launched Facebook SMS alerts to customers in the United States. [...]
August 14th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Facebook is working for tmobile but when i try to update my status or comment on somebodys status that i subscribed to it doesnt let me. but recieving is perfect. i hope this changes soon because it is annoying to have to go to the site. but i have a facebook application on my phone so it really isnt a big deal since i can just go directly to that and respond to the message. so right now the only thing i am using for facebook sms is the subscribed status’
August 20th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
i love facebook
October 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 am
[...] So, while Facebook’s iPhone app continues to be the single most popular mobile app, having grown quickly to nearly 15 million monthly active users today, GetJar appears to be spurring growth in the “long tail” of the mobile app world. We don’t have data on all of these apps, although larger ones include Facebook for Blackberry, which has 9.64 million monthly active users. Other mobile apps include those for phones from INQ, HTC, LG Electronics, Motorola, Palm, RIM, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, the T-Mobile Sidekick, and phones powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. Facebook has also rolled out an SMS service where users can update their status and receive notifications, and it’s available in 52 operators in 25 countries. [...]
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:59 pm
wow..it’s a very fine news for my kind of facebook lovers. I am always worried about facebook updates. But now i am able to get all updates and messages at my mobile. Anyway thanks for sharing information with us.
December 28th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
now they need us cellular!!!!
April 16th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
How do I get an application for face book is there one for the Samsung t459. To get pics put on my FB? Help?
June 16th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
How can I get facebook alerts on my t-mobile phone?
June 17th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
To Sally:
You need a ‘Droid” phone, and a Interet capable plan with T-Mobile. T-Mobile salesperson will show you the phone options you have.
August 28th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
is facebook mobile free even if you don’t have internet for t mobile users ?