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| Thread ID: 64686 | 2005-12-23 06:35:00 | Can you TXT to USA ? | vodafone (9466) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 415190 | 2005-12-24 08:28:00 | I'm 99% sure they DO have txt! | george12 (7) | ||
| 415191 | 2005-12-24 08:54:00 | I'm 99% sure they DO have txt!ha ha ... Surfer Joe.. where are you? ;) |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 415192 | 2005-12-24 08:54:00 | Someone please try it. Send a txt to somone u know in the States with a cellphone. But then maybe they don't pick up their 'txts'. I heard that too, that americans don't, as a rule, txt. oops (www.pewinternet.org) |
mark c (247) | ||
| 415193 | 2005-12-24 09:37:00 | you can text to the states | Prescott (11) | ||
| 415194 | 2005-12-25 21:47:00 | "+" or "00" same difference it seems. "00" is the international access code in NZ. Other countries (may) have different international access codes. The "+" at the beginning of the number, tells the cellphone system that the following number is an international one, so you don't have to prepend the international access for the country you are in. The "+" makes the phone number correct, anywhere. |
wuppo (41) | ||
| 415195 | 2005-12-27 18:29:00 | My partner is a yank, and before he moved to NZ we text messaged each other back and forth for months. As I recall, he had to get the service enabled on his contract as it didn't come standard, but he was still able to receive texts until that came through. One word of warning - I'm with Telstra (029), and they billed me 3 months late for hundreds of text messages sent to the US. Apparently this is a problem with sending text messages overseas. It wasn't pleasant getting a 10 page bill which was 10x the amount of my regular one! So keep an eye on your bill if you are on account, and keep some money aside just in case they're slow to bill you. |
pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 415196 | 2005-12-27 18:46:00 | One word of warning - I'm with Telstra (029), and they billed me 3 months late for hundreds of text messages sent to the US. Apparently this is a problem with sending text messages overseas. It wasn't pleasant getting a 10 page bill which was 10x the amount of my regular one! So keep an eye on your bill if you are on account, and keep some money aside just in case they're slow to bill you.Youve just reminded me of a story, well actually a huge moan i heard from a friend of min who ran her prepay into the ground with overseas calls. It seems that overseas communicactions are often not "billed" till later, so she made call after call expecting to just run out of creds any moment, as prepays do. Oddly enough it seemed to be a bottomless pit, untill she topped up next and the $20 was obsorbed without giving her any usable credit. | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 415197 | 2005-12-27 20:19:00 | Yeah, sounds familiar - thats about what Telstra said too. Apparently its there in the contract small print when you sign up for their services (that goes for Vodafone too), and they reserve the right to withhold billing and charge basically whenever they like. I tried to argue it with them (because being sprung with a $600 phone bill ain't cool), and though they admit it sucks, they won't do anything about it. That's life, I guess. | pixeldust (6619) | ||
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