Posted by markprimary
Verizon apparently offer international SMS with affiliated carriers/service providers around the world. Unfortunately it doesn't work. My girlfriend is based in the US and I spend most of my time in the UK, she's on Verizon and I'm on O2, whilst i can send her messages she receives and can read, she can send me messages but I don't receive them despite O2 being the only participating carrier for the UK...
What are we doing wrong? At the moment the only solution is to use MSN Messenger for mobile, which actually probably only costs a tad more.
Posted by Greggy
Both use o2pocket to send txts (thts if youve both got uk sims only costs 1p to send a o2pocket txt by gprs if u bookmark correctly
Posted by Vlammetje
Being 'on verizon' probably means a verizon simcard. Is your girlfriend roaming on another us network? As that may create problems sometimes (I could not send international sms from my us t mobile sim when roaming on at&t last year)
Posted by Greggy
My friend in belgium can send me o2pocket txts is her gprs cheap in usa? Ask her to send u o2pocket txts its probably a lot cheaper than sendin ordinary txts
Posted by markprimary
My girlfriend lives in the New York and is a Verizon Customer...
As a current O2 UK and at one time Orange UK customer I have never had problems sending texts to the US and within the US (sending domestically to US phones and UK phones in the US, and all phones outside the US) primarily on Cingluar and AT&T networks.