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| Thread ID: 36929 | 2003-08-23 22:49:00 | OT: 027 technical texting question | csinclair83 (200) | Press F1 |
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| 169977 | 2003-08-23 22:49:00 | I purchased a 027 a few weeks ago.... have been using it for texting only... and last nite wanted to empty my o21 credit so i texted my 027 10-15 times then credit was finished... and guess what.....NOT A SINGLE ONE of my 021 texts had reached my 027...and i asked a few friends to text me...from welly/aucks/rotorua last nite and this morning...and none of them got to me either? whats up with telecom? why cant they(m8s) text me? i thought telecom texting was meant to be one of the best? considering their technology is good.... i dont wanna find out that my money had gone to a waste... the main reason of my purchase is, texting and international texting as my dad travels quite often and my 021 couldnt even text australia unless i pay "more" so i got telecom and it had international texting built in, and now no problems texting him, either hes in sydney, singapore, london, wherever :D i also didnt get my halftime and fulltime rugby updates (which is free to people with a 027)....and my credit on my 027 is 6c...so yes i cannot text people but this shouldnt stop them texting me? is anyone having this problem as well? if yes or no...would u know whats going on anyway? |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 169978 | 2003-08-24 02:21:00 | bump bump...please help or give some ideas :) | csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 169979 | 2003-08-24 02:49:00 | Your 027 should text Australia fine if you put in the correct number, done it before myself. As for the 021 -> 027 texts thats definitely weird that they are not getting through. Maybe its a marketing ploy, so you have to buy a new chip to put in your phone now, so it will receive texts from other cell networks. hah. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 169980 | 2003-08-24 04:34:00 | Why don't you just contact Telecom? Its probably something simple that they will fix in two secs flat | Baldy (26) | ||
| 169981 | 2003-08-24 05:04:00 | The 027 <-> 021 gateway is a well known problem. In the early days of 025 and subsequently 027 texting you couldn't directly text between the networks, as the networks operate on two completely separate standards and networks. I'm not sure of the exact mechanism behind it but I believe there is basically a gateway which allows to text between the networks. It is not uncommon at all for texts between the networks to have delays at times up to several days, or not to be delivered at all. To the best of my knowledge, the Telecom network is a lot smaller internationally than the Vodafone network, which overall has better international support than Telecom. |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 169982 | 2003-08-24 05:44:00 | try typing the number as +6421xxxxxxxx or 6421xxxxxxxx Went telecom 027 for a year to try it out, on a plan unfortunately, service bad as well as customer service then my 2nd phone I got off them crapped out 3 days after the warranty finished and they wanted me to buy another, glad I paid the extra amount to get a 1 year contract. Not to mention the fact that my first phone when recieving texts from vodafone only recieved the second page of txt unless I wanted to forward it to myself and was told by customer service that they couldn't fix it. Lucky the second phone I got from the waranty had a software upgrade that made this possible. From now on I stick with vodafone. sorry bad feelings about telecom |
rsnic (3780) | ||
| 169983 | 2003-08-24 05:52:00 | 2 secs flat.....haha funny.... i emailed telecom about a different issue which was actually "connecting a line" and this was 3 months ago, and guess when i got the reply...friday..yes 2 days ago... i just gonna wait till 2morrow and go into the telecom shop and see what they can do :) |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 169984 | 2003-08-24 07:34:00 | > the main reason of my purchase is, texting and international texting as my dad > travels quite often and my 021 couldnt even text australia unless i pay "more" so i > got telecom and it had international texting built in, and now no problems texting > him, either hes in sydney, singapore, london, wherever :-D Who told you that? I recently went over to Australia for a school trip and took my phone after seeing Vodafone beforehand. Global roaming is now automatically set up on all Prepay accounts with vodafone so you can take your phone anywhere in the world where Vodafone has coverage (and it's quite a lengthy list) and use your phone.. Prices are the same as well - providing you stay on the Vodafone Network and don't stray of to Optus, Telstra or something like that (Vodafone will tell you how to do this) then you get charged exactly the same amount as you do in NZ - 20c per sms and I don't know what for calls - it's NZ 20c for an SMS as well so there's no currency conversion to sort out - be in London and you can send an SMS for 20c... International Texts costs 20c as well - I know - I was texting all through my holidays back to New Zealand - I had to change the number tos +6421 (which replaces the 0 in 021) but it wasn't too bad. The same goes for Voicemail too! And if your oversea's it's simpler! Your friends just send their message to your normal 021 number and you receive it anywhere in the world. No problems. The thing to be aware of is you pay for calls you recieve if your in another country - so top up large before you leave. CyberChuck |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 169985 | 2003-08-24 07:37:00 | I find it strange that you couldn't text Australia without having to pay more . . . ? I mean, like when I text my friends in aussie, its only 8cents per message I send (to anywhere in the world - i HAVE checked my bill, and it is still 8 cents for wherever i send a text to) . Same with my friends, it doesnt cost them more to text australia or wherever . . . It's also weird how you're having problems with your 027 mobile, as a lot of people i know have 027 mobiles and its all been sweet as for all of them . cheers, caffy |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 169986 | 2003-08-24 07:43:00 | Forgot to mention - same as cyberchuck said - the text prices should be the same wherever you are in the world, providing you stay with vodafone . I've texted from Australia and South Africa's vodafone networks with no problems and at no extra cost per text . |
caffy (2665) | ||
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