What is the cheapest way to do International texting? What subscriber has the best rate? .35 a message is ex?

Some one has suggested that one can change phone number to email address. How does that improve the text message rate? What if that cell phone doesn't have email capability?What is the cheapest way to do International texting? What subscriber has the best rate? .35 a message is ex?
Yes, you can send a text message in e-mail format and if you get a reply it will go to your e-mail account. Each carrier will have it's own address format, the one for Verizon is XXXXXXXXXX@vtext.com where the Xs represent the 10 digit cell phone number you're sending the message to.



That's one way.



Another is to use yahoo SMS for free to the countries they support directly from your cell phone.