Windows 10: No text phone. Can i get text calls on my PC?

My friends keep bugging me to get a text phone so they can text me instead of sending emails. I do not need a text phone, period. So I am wondering if I can get text calls on my PC and they get my emails on their text phones.

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Any way I can send cell phone texts from my PC?

Something like this --> MobiClient or this --> SMS with Gmail

There are a lot of options out there...Free or Paid.

Google--> sms text from computer to cell phone

 

How to send an email that a phone receives as a text?

At my office, we want to have the ability to communicate with our electricians who are fairly low tech people. They don't check emails often, but text messaging would work fine for our need. I know with Verizon and Sprint you can using the text messaging app on the phone to text an email, and then if you reply to say L: 9995724770@VTEXT.COM that email will go to the phone as a text message.

Short of having all the electricians text an email to get these addresses, is there an easier way to go about this? I've never really dealt with mass texting before. Is say a Droid phone capable of sending a text to 40 people?

 

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