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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?)

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:
 
http://tinyurl.com/9hcgk
 
So, it would be unlikely that this is a carrier-wide issue.
 
 
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