SMS messages to New Zealand?

Hello,

I'd like to send an SMS message to a phone in New Zealand; the carrier there
is Vodafone. I have a Sprint account myself here in the US.

Is there any way to do this through my own phone? The phone number is (from
a land line 011-64-021-xxx-xxxx, where '64' is the New Zealand country code
and 021 is a Vodafone cell phone. When I dial the number on a calling card,
however, I have to omit the '0' in '021.' I'm guessing my cell phone would
want to see 64-21-xxx-xxxx as the number to send to?

If this isn't possible, I'd appreciate pointers to any free or inexpensive
Web or e-mail to SMS gateways that work with Vodafone.

Thank you,
---Joel Kolstad

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Sprint international SMS usually doesn't work and is not supported. I can't
get it to work with China Mobile.

I'm using ecallchina as an SMS gateway. Others that I tried that didn't
work in China, but might work for you, are bigfoot and ippi.

"Joel Kolstad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I'd like to send an SMS message to a phone in New Zealand; the carrier
> there is Vodafone. I have a Sprint account myself here in the US.
>
> Is there any way to do this through my own phone? The phone number is
> (from a land line 011-64-021-xxx-xxxx, where '64' is the New Zealand
> country code and 021 is a Vodafone cell phone. When I dial the number on
> a calling card, however, I have to omit the '0' in '021.' I'm guessing my
> cell phone would want to see 64-21-xxx-xxxx as the number to send to?
>
> If this isn't possible, I'd appreciate pointers to any free or inexpensive
> Web or e-mail to SMS gateways that work with Vodafone.
>
> Thank you,
> ---Joel Kolstad
>
>

You would need to send the SMS to the number exactly as you call it.
(eg 01164021xxxxxxx). Having said that though, if it doesnt work the
first time try it again without the second zero (eg 0116421xxxxxxx).

Sprint claims to support "some" intl sms, but not all. Another option
you can use is to get the email address of the recipients phone and
send a SMS to that email address. For instance your phones email
address is your number @ messaging.sprintpcs.com (eg
[email protected]. I'm not 100% sure with sprint, but
you may also be able to create an alias to use instead of your phone
number.

Good Luck!

You can to text Telecom (CDMA) In NZ (027 Network) 64 27 XXX-XXXX
I do not think that you can to Vodafone.


"homind7" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> You would need to send the SMS to the number exactly as you call it.
> (eg 01164021xxxxxxx). Having said that though, if it doesnt work the
> first time try it again without the second zero (eg 0116421xxxxxxx).
>
> Sprint claims to support "some" intl sms, but not all. Another option
> you can use is to get the email address of the recipients phone and
> send a SMS to that email address. For instance your phones email
> address is your number @ messaging.sprintpcs.com (eg
> [email protected]. I'm not 100% sure with sprint, but
> you may also be able to create an alias to use instead of your phone
> number.
>
> Good Luck!
>

Joel Kolstad wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to send an SMS message to a phone in New Zealand; the carrier there
> is Vodafone. I have a Sprint account myself here in the US.
>
> Is there any way to do this through my own phone? The phone number is (from
> a land line 011-64-021-xxx-xxxx, where '64' is the New Zealand country code
> and 021 is a Vodafone cell phone. When I dial the number on a calling card,
> however, I have to omit the '0' in '021.' I'm guessing my cell phone would
> want to see 64-21-xxx-xxxx as the number to send to?
>
> If this isn't possible, I'd appreciate pointers to any free or inexpensive
> Web or e-mail to SMS gateways that work with Vodafone.
>
> Thank you,
> ---Joel Kolstad
>
>

Look at
http://www.sms.ac

Or the web2TXT service at http://www.vodafone.co.nz/ might do what you
want, but it looks like you have to pre-register or pay for it.

--
Frank Harris in San Francisco with an A680

"Frank Harris" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Look at
> http://www.sms.ac

It turns out they only support Telecom, not Vodafone. :-(

> Or the web2TXT service at http://www.vodafone.co.nz/ might do what you
> want, but it looks like you have to pre-register or pay for it.

Yeah, that approach might work.

I'm surprised that the US model of e-mailing '[email protected]' isn't
provided overseas!

Thanks for the help,
---Joel Kolstad

"Joel Kolstad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to send an SMS message to a phone in New Zealand; the carrier
there
> is Vodafone. I have a Sprint account myself here in the US.
>

Doesn't the receiving phone have an email address? For example, I can
receive SMS messages at my phone number followed by "@mobile.att.net"

"Jeremy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Doesn't the receiving phone have an email address?

No. It turns out that, while ubiquitous here in the US, in other countries
SMS messaging via e-mail gateways is nowhere near as common.

Some of this probably has to do with the fact receiving SMS in the US is
pretty much free for everyone these days, whereas in other countries this
typically isn't the case. (In most other countries, though, receiving
regular cell calls are 'free' and the person calling them foots the
additional cost.)

---Joel Kolstad