Text message to France

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I had the same problem with trying to send text messages to people in
Europe, on the Orange network. Being charged for those messages, I called
fido to get a credit. But they told me they make no guarantee that it would
be received and it actually states that in their user agreement.

"Munger" <fakeaddress@fakeaddress.com> wrote in message
news:b5tld.93608$Th1.1517247@wagner.videotron.net...
> Hi,
>
> When I visited France in September, I made some friends with whom I
> exchanged text messages when I wasn't in the same city than they were. One
> is British and one is French.
>
> The text messages worked when I was over there, but since I got back to
> Canada, text messages don't work when I send something to the one who has
> a French phone while they do when I send them to the guy with a British
> phone. Strangely, both have the same carrier called Orange.
>
> Is there anything I can try to do on my side?
>
>
> Munger
>
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