My wife and I just signed up with Cingular and were curious if we can send SMS to our friends in Russia (services like MTS and Beeline).
Anyone else trying to do this?
Thanks
Shawn
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JCMyersIV Posts: 122
Phone Model: V635 & BB 7290
Service Provider: Cingular
Wed Nov 24, 2004 9:57 am
From reading the Cingular website, it appears as though you can (they have a voice roaming agreement with them). If you use your phone while visiting, it will cost $3.99/min, so beware! The SMS sending rate for out-of-country messages is $0.50/each.
Good luck
NDogg78 Posts: 87
Phone Model: Motorola V600
Service Provider: Cingular
Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:46 am
if you have a messaging plan, i would suggest instead of sending an SMS message to an out of country number and possibly incur a .50 charge for each message (is this correct? thought it was .20 to send and regular rates for receiving) , send an SMS message to their phone's email address. that way it counts as a regular SMS message.
JCMyersIV Posts: 122
Phone Model: V635 & BB 7290
Service Provider: Cingular
Wed Nov 24, 2004 7:52 pm
you are correct dog, its $.20 to send from the US; $.50 if you're in a forein country roaming and sending SMS's. Incoming in foreign countries are applied to your plan, or are $.10/ea.
swjohnson Posts: 2
Phone Model: Samsung
Service Provider: Cingular
Sun Nov 28, 2004 11:50 pm
Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.
Now, what I need to know is about the number. Do I use their phone number as I would normally or do I have to put all the 0117.... stuff in front of their number so that it gets there correctly?
Thanks
SJ
JCMyersIV Posts: 122
Phone Model: V635 & BB 7290
Service Provider: Cingular
Mon Nov 29, 2004 12:46 pm
If Russia is like Western Europe, you can omit the 0. Usually just entering the "+" key (usually push and hold either the * or 0 key to create a +) then country code then area/city code then number (again, omitting the leading 0 you would use if you were calling the number from in-country) will work. No spaces or dashes required; it should work.
murat_au11 Posts: 1
Phone Model: 3650
Service Provider: telsim
Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:11 am
swjohnson wrote:
My wife and I just signed up with Cingular and were curious if we can send SMS to our friends in Russia (services like MTS and Beeline).
Anyone else trying to do this?
Thanks
Shawn
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hypercon Posts: 1
Tue May 29, 2007 1:16 pm
hey man, I got a situation ;
my girlfriend just went to russia to see her parents and I've been trying to send her sms but she said she didnt receive any of them, what's the hold-up? I mean i think I'm doing it right, it works when I send to germany or turkey. i got cingular and use the (+79273232.) cnfiguration.
please let me know if you have any idea.
dandv Posts: 3
Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:38 pm
I've just tested (excuse the crappy address, the forum won't let me post URLs) dubdubdub beonline dot ru and you'll see an icon to send SMS. Use Google translate to figure out where to type the number (the text input labeled something with "10"). Exclude the leading '7'.
Also, peekamo (Google it) lets you send SMSes to ~180 contries for free, including Russia. If the recipient doesn't join peekamo, you can send them only 5 messages per month. If they do join, it's apparently unlimited.
Cptech31 Posts: 650
Phone Model: Nokia 6085
Service Provider: AT&T/Cingular
Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:15 pm
hypercon wrote:
hey man, I got a situation ;
my girlfriend just went to russia to see her parents and I've been trying to send her sms but she said she didnt receive any of them, what's the hold-up? I mean i think I'm doing it right, it works when I send to germany or turkey. i got cingular and use the (+79273232.) cnfiguration.
please let me know if you have any idea.
ok if your grilfriend took a us based cellphone with her and is using it in russia than all you would have to do is send the sms to the us based phone
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