Your WIN-911 alarm groups still send. The texts still don't arrive. Here's the 30-minute fix — no upgrade required.
WIN-911 MIGRATION · NO UPGRADE NEEDED

Your WIN-911 says the alarm was sent. Your on-call operator says their phone never rang.

Carrier email-to-SMS gateways (@txt.att.net, @vtext.com, @tmomail.net) shut down in 2025. WIN-911 still tries to deliver — the carriers black-hole it silently. Fix it in 30 minutes. No SmartSights upgrade, no cellular modem, no SCADA changes.

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Works with V7, V2021, 2025
No SCADA changes
Delivery receipts for compliance
SWAP THE GATEWAY DOMAIN

In your WIN-911 alarm group recipient list:

SILENTLY DROPPED
5125551234@txt.att.net
▼ swap to ▼
PAGE ARRIVES
+15125551234@sendemailtotext.com

Same recipient field in your alarm group. Same WIN-911. Different gateway.

Works with WIN-911 V7·V2021·2025·Wonderware·iFIX·Ignition·FactoryTalk
SYMPTOMS OF THE SILENT FAILURE

WIN-911 logs say "sent." Your operators say "never got it."

Carrier email-to-SMS gateways accept the email at the MX, then drop it silently. WIN-911 has no way to know. Your audit log shows compliance — your operator missed the page.

SYMPTOM 01

WIN-911 logs show "Email sent successfully"

The gateway accepted it at the MX. The carrier dropped it after. WIN-911 only knows the SMTP handshake — it has no view into what happens after carrier ingress.

SYMPTOM 02

Operator's phone never rings — Tier 2 doesn't either

The alarm escalates to a Tier 2 supervisor. Same gateway. Same silence. Entire callout chain fails because every recipient is on a dead carrier domain.

SYMPTOM 03

No NDR. No bounce. No log entry indicating delivery failure

Carriers stopped issuing non-delivery receipts when they decommissioned the gateways. WIN-911 sees nothing wrong. Your SMTP server sees nothing wrong. The text just doesn't exist.

SYMPTOM 04

You only find out when the lift station overflows

Or the digester pH alarm wasn't caught. Or the clearwell turbidity went out of spec for six hours. You discover the broken alarm path the same way the public does.

Recognize any of these? Your carrier-gateway recipients are dead — and WIN-911 has no idea.

Fix the recipient list — 30-min setup →

"If WIN-911 says the alarm was sent and the carrier silently dropped it, your audit log shows compliance — but your operator missed the page. That's the worst kind of failure mode."

Who it's for

If WIN-911 pages your on-call rotation, this fix applies.

Industrial verticals running WIN-911 (or any SCADA-attached alarm manager) into carrier email-to-SMS. Same recipient swap. Same WIN-911 logic. Different gateway.

Water & wastewater treatment

Lift stations · Clearwells
Digesters · Pumping plants

Oil & gas

Tank farms · Compressor stations
Wellhead monitoring

Manufacturing telemetry

Discrete · Process
Food & beverage · Pharma

Electrical / power utilities

Substations · Distribution
Co-ops

Pumping stations & remote sites

Lift stations · Booster stations
Unattended SCADA

Life sciences & pharma

FDA 21 CFR Part 11
Validated alarm chains

Different SCADA stack or alarm manager? 15-min call — bring your recipient list →

The fix

Three steps inside the recipient list. No SCADA touch.

Open the alarm group. Swap the domain. Force a test alarm. Done — on V7, V2021, or 2025.

STEP 01 · OPEN YOUR WIN-911 ALARM GROUP

Edit the recipient list

The one with 5125551234@txt.att.net or similar carrier-gateway addresses. Every operator on every escalation tier.

STEP 02 · CHANGE THE DOMAIN

Swap to @sendemailtotext.com

Same number, different gateway: +15125551234@sendemailtotext.com. No code, no SDK, no upgrade. WIN-911 doesn't care which SMTP domain it talks to.

STEP 03 · TEST FROM WIN-911

Force a test alarm

Operator's phone rings. Done. Works with V7, V2021, and 2025. Replies from the operator come back as threaded emails in your inbox — handy for acknowledgment workflows.

NO UPGRADE NEEDED

Mobile-911 / SmartSights upgrade requires WIN-911 2025 + per-user subscription + smartphone with data + no audit trail of carrier delivery. TextBolt is a $29/mo email recipient swap that works with V7. Your existing alarm groups, escalation tiers, and SCADA-side logic stay exactly where they are.

CARRIER GATEWAYS ARE GONE

WIN-911 isn't broken. The carriers are.

JUNE 17, 2025

AT&T shut down @txt.att.net

Hard cutoff. Anything sent to @txt.att.net from June 17, 2025 onward goes nowhere. No bounce, no NDR.

DEC 14, 2024

T-Mobile silently killed @tmomail.net

T-Mobile / Sprint email-to-SMS gateway accepts mail and drops it. No public deprecation notice. Operators with T-Mobile numbers stopped getting pages overnight.

2024 — MARCH 31, 2027

Verizon retiring @vtext.com

Cloudfilter/Proofpoint already drops most business mail (AUP#CDRBL, AUP#MXRT). Full cutoff March 31, 2027 — but real-world delivery is already at 30–40%.

WIN-911 isn't broken. WIN-911 is doing its job. The carriers are the problem — and they're not coming back. Every operator on a carrier-gateway recipient address needs a different destination domain. Same WIN-911 logic, different domain.

Compare

TextBolt vs the upgrade path SmartSights wants to sell you.

Carrier gateways
(dead)
Mobile-911
SmartSights
Native cellular
modem
TextBolt
Works with WIN-911 V7?
N/A
✗ requires 2025 upgrade
✓ but $$$
✓ yes
Setup time
Was instant
Weeks (upgrade + training)
Days (hardware)
~30 min
Per-user fee
Free
Yes (subscription)
No
No (up to 10 included)
Auditable delivery
No NDRs
App-only
SIM-based
✓ Delivery receipts
Works in low-signal areas
SMS only
Requires data signal
SIM coverage
SMS only
Annual cost (small water
district, 5 operators)
$0 (dead)
$1,500+
$5,000+ hardware
$588

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COMPLIANCE · A2P 10DLC

Carriers block 100% of unregistered business texts.

Since Feb 1, 2025, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon block every A2P SMS that isn't registered with The Campaign Registry. Penalties run up to $10,000 per content violation. We handle it.

TEXTBOLT HANDLES

Registration, done for you.

  • Brand registration with TCR (~48 hrs)
  • Campaign registration with sample alarm text
  • Verified 10DLC business phone number
  • STOP / HELP keyword auto-handling
  • Timestamped audit trail per page (good for EPA / NERC / Part 11)
  • 10DLC-compliant routing — up to 98% delivery
YOU PROVIDE

Your utility info & opt-in proof.

  • EIN / Tax ID (or municipal equivalent)
  • Legal entity name (matches utility / district)
  • Privacy policy with SMS clause
  • 3–5 sample alarm pages you'll send
  • Opt-in proof: on-call rotation policy in your ops manual · employee handbook acknowledgment · written consent in operator hire docs
  • Honor STOP requests in your process

Full breakdown: 10DLC compliance guide →

Plants that switched

Water utilities, food plants, treatment districts — pages arriving again.

★★★★★

"Our lift stations alarm to 4 operators in rotation. Lost 6 weeks of confidence after txt.att.net died. Migrated, tested with deliberate alarm — every operator got paged."

Marcus Chen · SCADA Engineer, Municipal Water District (TX)
★★★★★

"We can't lose a digester alarm at 3am. txt.att.net failures meant operators were getting calls from each other when they noticed missed pages. Now we get the SMS first."

Jennifer Lee · Chief Operator, Wastewater Treatment Plant (BC)
★★★★★

"WIN-911 V7 from 2018. Upgrading is $40K + 3 days of validation. TextBolt was 30 minutes."

Mike Thompson · Maintenance Manager, Food & Beverage Plant
Pricing

Flat monthly fee. Up to 10 senders included.

1 message credit = 1 SMS segment (~155 chars). Most alarm pages = 1 credit. 7-day free trial on all plans. No per-operator subscription.

Basic
$29/mo

Single-site SCADA setups.

  • 500 message credits / mo
  • 1 verified 10DLC number
  • Single sender / alarm group
  • Replies thread to inbox
  • · $0.058 / extra segment
Start free trial
Professional
$99/mo

High-volume / Part 11 validated.

  • 2,500 message credits / mo
  • Up to 10 senders
  • Advanced delivery analytics
  • Custom retention
  • Migration kickoff call included
  • · $0.040 / extra segment
Start free trial

Running a multi-site utility with 5,000+ pages a month? Enterprise pricing →·Toll-free add-on $45/year

FAQ

WIN-911 migration questions.

Will this work with my legacy WIN-911 (V7, V2021)?

Yes. WIN-911 V7 and V2021 send standard SMTP to whatever recipient address you put in the alarm group. They don't care if it ends in @txt.att.net or @sendemailtotext.com. No upgrade, no patch, no validation window required.

Do I need SmartSights / Mobile-911?

No. Mobile-911 is a separate mobile app that requires WIN-911 2025, per-user subscriptions, and a smartphone with data signal. TextBolt is a separate gateway — your operators keep getting normal SMS on their existing phones, with no app to install and no data dependency.

Does this require a cellular modem at the plant?

No. Your existing internet connection from the plant is enough — WIN-911 sends standard SMTP outbound. Native cellular modem solutions are $5,000+ in hardware plus SIM coverage at every remote site. TextBolt costs $29–99/mo and uses the internet your plant already has.

What about compliance — EPA / NERC CIP / FDA 21 CFR Part 11?

TextBolt provides per-message delivery receipts (the carrier acknowledgment) and a timestamped audit log. For EPA SCADA alarm reporting, NERC CIP-008 incident audit, and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 validated alarm chains, this is what auditors expect — a verifiable record of which page reached which operator at what time.

Can I escalate to multiple operators in tiers?

Yes — WIN-911 handles your tier logic exactly as before. TextBolt just delivers each tier's SMS. Tier 1 primary on-call, Tier 2 supervisor escalation, Tier 3 manager — same WIN-911 escalation rules, same delays, same retry counts. We just make sure the SMS arrives at every tier.

Does this work for water/wastewater compliance reporting?

Yes. The TextBolt audit log includes carrier-side delivery confirmation per message — the missing piece that carrier email-to-SMS gateways never provided. State EPA reporting and NPDES audit trails accept this as proof-of-page.

What is A2P 10DLC and do we need it?

Yes — for any business SMS in the US, carriers require A2P 10DLC registration via The Campaign Registry. Since Feb 1, 2025, 100% of unregistered traffic is blocked. TextBolt handles brand + campaign registration in ~48 hrs. You provide EIN, utility name, sample alarm messages, and opt-in proof (on-call policy in your ops manual works).

How fast can I migrate? We have a validation window.

~30 minutes to edit the recipient list in your WIN-911 alarm groups. 24–48 hours for 10DLC brand and campaign approval. Most plants are testing pages the same business day. Migration doesn't touch SCADA, doesn't touch WIN-911 configuration, and doesn't require a maintenance window — only the recipient list in the alarm groups changes.
30-MIN SETUP · 7-DAY FREE TRIAL

Same WIN-911. Same alarm groups.
Different gateway. Pages arrive.

Edit the recipient list. Swap @txt.att.net for @sendemailtotext.com. Force a test alarm. Operators get paged.

Works with V7, V2021, 2025 · No SCADA touch · Delivery receipts for audit

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