A method for getting user equipment information through short messages includes: sending, by a third party service equipment, a request message for inquiring current state information of a user equipment to a short message service center; sending, by the short message service center, a get routing message to a Home Location Register to get the current state information of the user equipment; returning, by the Home Location Register, a get routing message response to the short message service center upon receiving the get routing message, the get routing message response containing the current state information of the user equipment; responding, by the short message service center, to the third party service equipment with the current state information of the user equipment in the getting routing message response.