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Does SMS work across international boarders? |
dolmsted
Joined: May 11, 2002
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From: Manhattan Beach, CA
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Have friend that lives in Jamaica and uses a Motorola V66 GSM phone via DigiCell and I am in the US. Is there a way for SMS messages to get sent to that phone from my phone? Not had any luck as of yet but am wondering if there is something that has to be done in addition when sending international.
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sebastian
Joined: Apr 05, 2002
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From: sydney, australia
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yes it should work but u need 2 know the country code ie. # in australia with country code 61 is +61414123456 instead of 0414123456 hope this works
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dolmsted
Joined: May 11, 2002
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From: Manhattan Beach, CA
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Then it would stand to reason that what ever sequence of numbers you have to use to dial the person should work in sending an SMS message, right? |
Fingers
Joined: Jan 29, 2002
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From: New Zealand
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Yeah exactly right, I'm living in the UK and I sms my friends in NZ all the time, plus other friends that are working in Holland and Switzerland, you should have no trouble |
dolmsted
Joined: May 11, 2002
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Many thanks for all of your imputs. |
arpiun
Joined: Mar 18, 2002
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From: Belgium
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And do you have obligatory to put the sms center of the country you are sending the sms? (Because when i send a sms from Belgium to Netherlands with the sms center of my operator, the message does arrive to destination!) |
Cytech
Joined: Feb 19, 2002
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On 2002-05-11 22:07, arpiun wrote:
And do you have obligatory to put the sms center of the country you are sending the sms? (Because when i send a sms from Belgium to Netherlands with the sms center of my operator, the message does arrive to destination!)
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you use the number of your operator's sms center no matter where you are in the world (just rememeber that you must have the country code in the number if you are in another country)
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mercedes4ever
Joined: Dec 11, 2001
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dolmsted,
what carrier are you on ? |
Caspa
Joined: Nov 28, 2001
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From: London, UK.
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Use all the normal sms setup you have...just the international format of the number is needed...if it doesnt work then speak to your network...ITS NETWORK DEPENDANT!
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arroyootje
Joined: Feb 01, 2002
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From: UK-Belgium-Azerbaijan
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It's completely dependent on your network. When in Belgium, if I use Proximus with prepay, it doesn't work, with abonnement it does. Base won't let me send abroad and the only one that works is MOBISTAR 
Here in Azerbaijan, I can pretty much send anywhere and only Base, belgium and one other network in Morocco, can't receive...
Pretty pathetic really, seeing as a retarded network like Azercell can send to almost anyone, but Proximus and Base, can't...
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arpiun
Joined: Mar 18, 2002
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From: Belgium
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With Base i send a sms to netherlands and it works!!! |
arroyootje
Joined: Feb 01, 2002
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From: UK-Belgium-Azerbaijan
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Try sending to Azerbaijan: +994503474343
won't work, tried it a hundred times....
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arpiun
Joined: Mar 18, 2002
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From: Belgium
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ok i'll try now tell me if you receive |
dolmsted
Joined: May 11, 2002
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From: Manhattan Beach, CA
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I am on VoiceStream.
If my message does not actaully make it through do I get some sort of an error or something? |
dolmsted
Joined: May 11, 2002
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From: Manhattan Beach, CA
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arroyootje,
Just tried the number and I got an error right away. Does that mean that if the message I am sending are not getting to there destination that I will get an error to allow me to know this? |
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Posted: 2002-05-11 15:44
