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Off Topic - International SMS |
dmccabe
Joined: Jan 09, 2002
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From: Scotland, but living in Wales,
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How easy, or difficult is it to send/receive international sms text messages?
I'm on Orange Just Talk, and I sent a couple of sms' to a friend in New York. She never received them.
Should it be just as straightforward as sending an SMS from a UK phone to another UK phone, (but with the international number), or is there something else I need to know or do?
Thanks in advance guys...
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svenbocklandt
Joined: Dec 16, 2001
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From: Washington, DC
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Well, there are two issues here: sending sms to the rest of the world, and sending sms to the USA.
The rest of the world is easy: it's almost all GSM based, so you just send your text to +countrycodephonenumber. So for Belgium, that would be +32phonenumber.
The US, however... most networks here do not use GSM, but all different technologies. They're not compatible with sms (yet). The only full GSM network here (Cingular is converting slowly) is VoiceStream. VoiceStream "does not support international messaging". I notice that I can send and receive messages from VS to just a few networks in Europe (it works to Vodafone UK for me), but that's all.
I hope they'll get their shit together here in the US and interconnect all networks... but until then, no sms to your friend in NY... |
JuanK
Joined: Jan 17, 2002
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From: Stockholm, Sweden
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I believe if you find a GSM network that has SMS roaming with the network your friend use in NY, you can use that network's service center number to send your sms.
Wich service provider is your friend using in NY?
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dmccabe
Joined: Jan 09, 2002
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From: Scotland, but living in Wales,
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My friend is on a Sprint PCS network.
I have an T86, she is using a Siemens model. (Not that this would make any difference I guess)
She did mention last night that her Boss managed to get International SMS working, but she said that there was paperwork of some sort involved?!?!?!
Then again, her boss might be on a different network again. |
dmccabe
Joined: Jan 09, 2002
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From: Scotland, but living in Wales,
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*D'oH!*
I have a T68!!! (before I get loads of silly replies  ) |
Harleydog
Joined: Nov 06, 2001
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I am a T68 owner in the US with Voice Stream Service and I regularly text message with my friends in Italy and they receive my messages; i think its a compatability issue with GSM and nonGSM networks |
svenbocklandt
Joined: Dec 16, 2001
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From: Washington, DC
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Yeah, Sprint PCS in the US does not use GSM, they have CDMA. Up til now, they don't even have text messaging (I was a Sprint customer up til a month ago, and switched over for that reason), except for through WAP or email. So I'm afraid that's not gonna work... |
dmccabe
Joined: Jan 09, 2002
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Cheers for all the info guys.
Things make a lot more sense now.
[ This Message was edited by: dmccabe on 2002-01-20 14:24 ] |
olaf0074
Joined: Jul 10, 2002
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From: Chicago
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I noticed most of the messages in this category are dated from January this year...
I'd be interested to know, has anybody had any success texting from the UK to the US lately (as of July) ?
I'm on Voicestream in Chicago with a T-68 and can send SMS to my buddy in London (not sure of his carrier) but he can't send them back to me...
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captainsm
Joined: Jun 25, 2002
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I send them all the time, almost never a problem. |
Epedemic
Joined: Dec 28, 2001
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From: Denmark, Copenhagen
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a lot of (european at least) operators are currently shutting down reception of sms from other providers who dont pay them... or dont pay them enough (or simply dont have a roaming agreement with them)
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Jason2002
Joined: Sep 18, 2002
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Can anyone bail me out here::: I can recieve text messaging on my phone from States and he has t-mobile and for some reason he can't recieve my text messaging and I have orange as my provider. Is there anything that I should be doing from my side here.
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bart
Joined: Feb 03, 2002
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From: Flanders
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here in belgium (using base) its is not posible to send to alot of country's only the neigbours and a few other.
but whit mobi* en proximus here you can send to almost all of them |
decoy7
Joined: Feb 06, 2002
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From: NW London
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i'm in the UK and can sms most places for free using o2 payasugo.
there was another post where stampid from Montreal, Canada asked to be sent an sms, this worked fine sending and receiving:
http://esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=10904&forum=14#post136539
for North America the number should be entered as +1 212 0000000
(+ represents 00, obtained by holding down 0 on your keypad, 212 is the area code, followed by the remaining 7 digits of the phone number)
example numbers:
UK: +44 7960 000000
Germany: +49 1702 000000
Switzerland: +41 796 000000
from the example, if you dont write numbers in international format when you roam in Switzerland from the UK you could end up dialing a local mobile user with the same phone number as a friend.
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Posted: 2002-01-18 13:48
