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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?
Archived from groups: alt.cellular.sprintpcs (More info?)
bossdragon wrote:
> No, you cannot send text message across provider platforms.
Oh yess you can! I've sent text messages cross-provider from Sprint to TMobile, Sprint to Cingular, and Sprint to Verizon without any issues, all text messages were recevied.
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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: