Web gateway multi-carrier support

A method of facilitating movement of a message between networks, comprising:

• accessing a dynamically updateable carrier format table associating a plurality of carriers serviced by a physical message distribution center gateway and network types and protocols of particular ones of said plurality of carriers;
• interrogating an incoming message at said physical message distribution center to determine a destination address associated with said incoming message;
• interrogating said dynamically updateable carrier format table to determine an external remote physical destination carrier gateway associated with said destination address;
• addressing said incoming message to said external remote physical destination carrier gateway in accordance with information retrieved from said dynamically updateable carrier format table;
• and
• transparently routing said addressed incoming message to said external remote physical destination carrier gateway, said external remote physical destination carrier gateway being selected for each said incoming message based on carrier specific information obtained from said dynamically updateable carrier message format table.