text messaging - some basic questions

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.

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I have sent SMS messages from my Sprint Phone to folks with Cingular,
Verizon, and T-Mobile. I did not have any problems.

"bossdragon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> No, you cannot send text message across provider platforms. I think
> there may be a couple connected carriers that allow it, but for the
> most part....no. Yeah, it does suck, and I have heard the Verizon and a
> couple the other major carriers are in the process of solving this
> problem.
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bossdragon burbled to the world:
> No, you cannot send text message across provider platforms. I think
> there may be a couple connected carriers that allow it, but for the
> most part....no. Yeah, it does suck, and I have heard the Verizon and
> a couple the other major carriers are in the process of solving this
> problem.


You, sir, are a complete and utter idiot, and proof of the old
adage that it is better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open
your mouth and prove it.

I send and receive text messages and picture mail to friends on
Cingular, T-Mobile and Verizon every day. No problem No hassle.

Chris


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James Thurber

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?

Chris Pisarra wrote:
> bossdragon burbled to the world:
>
>>No, you cannot send text message across provider platforms. I think
>>there may be a couple connected carriers that allow it, but for the
>>most part....no. Yeah, it does suck, and I have heard the Verizon and
>>a couple the other major carriers are in the process of solving this
>>problem.
>
>
>
> You, sir, are a complete and utter idiot, and proof of the old
> adage that it is better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open
> your mouth and prove it.
>
> I send and receive text messages and picture mail to friends on
> Cingular, T-Mobile and Verizon every day. No problem No hassle.
>
> Chris
>
>
> --
> Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead.
> James Thurber
>
>

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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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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Pls call your operator helpdesk.

Regards,
Joshua Lim
Visualtron Software
http://www.sms-gateway-software.com