text messaging - some basic questions

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I'm just starting to use text messaging and I've found a couple of things
confusing. Can I send a text message to anyone with a relatively late model
cell phone? Do the service carriers of the person sending the message and
the recipient have to be the same? For example,. if I send a text message
from my Sprint PCS phone to a friend with T-Mobile will he receive the text
message?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.sprintpcs (More info?)

C M wrote:
> I have sent text message to a friend on Verizon and she could receive
> the message. The only thing is when she replies, I never seem to get
> the messages. So if it is supposed to work, then she must be doing
> something wrong? Maybe Verizon requires some extra steps to reply to a
> Sprintpcs customer?


It's more likely to be a bad SMS gateway configuration in her coverage
area, or a problem with the setup in her specific account.

Nearly all of the wireless carriers use a third party contractor to
handle intercarrier SMS, such as VeriSign:

http://tinyurl.com/9hcgk

So, it would be unlikely that this is a carrier-wide issue.


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