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Can't send international text?
February 18, 2014
10:15 am
drift
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I don't have a value plan, the faqs don't seem to mention anything about requiring the value plan to send international text. Here's the problem. I'm trying to send a text to someone in China Guangzhou. I tried 2 different formatting. I called the person 8 hours later and they said they never received any text! I tried 0118620phonenumber, then +8620phonenumber. Sending international text can't be this hard!

February 19, 2014
5:27 am
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You might want to check that number again. In China, area code 20 is for fixed (landline) service. Mobile numbers have 11 digits (not including the country code) starting with 13/14/15/18.

March 6, 2014
8:16 am
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czg416 said:

You might want to check that number again. In China, area code 20 is for fixed (landline) service. Mobile numbers have 11 digits (not including the country code) starting with 13/14/15/18.


Wouldn't it be nice if the OP were polite enough to reply by thanking for the hopefully usefull information provided!!!!
This BTW is for any posting!!!!!

March 14, 2014
10:57 am
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i was on vacation. nope, I tried it didn't work. weird, because the person in China told me that was her cell number, not landline number. thanks though.

March 21, 2014
7:20 pm
Bruce from Montreal
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This may depend on what alphabet/characters you are trying to send; what codepage!!
Languages such as Chinese, Japanese Kanji (Jis or shif-jis, Vietnamese, etc will have many such characters toat do not fit in the UTF-8 page.

Similarly for many of the middle eastern right to left languages derived from the ancient Arameic ie.g Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi. this also will apply to Urdu, and the dozen or so Indian languages, plus Sanskrit (a case in its own.)

Thos are just a beginning...

March 23, 2014
11:42 pm
chimpanzee
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utf8 covers all the language on this planet. this still sounds like a simple SMS connection thing. they may not have agreement with that particular carrier for sms. 8620 doesn't sound like mobile in china unless for very regional carrier. it may be a 'mobile' local carrier which is not mobile in our sense.