The Unofficial Speak Out Wireless Canada Consumer Page - Topic: Can SpeakOut receive skype sms

15190000 on Can SpeakOut receive skype sms

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:46:33 -0800

I am in BC as well. I have been tried 8 times since January 2011. Just hoping one day miracle could happen without caller ID feature, google unlimited US and Canada free call is a better choice than skype, just can't give up speakout! Does anyone know what's the problem between speakout and skype?

Peter on Can SpeakOut receive skype sms

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:53:05 -0800

I had successfully done this in November 2010: have Skype send my Speak Out cell phone an SMS so that my Speak Out cell phone number could be my Skype caller ID. I don't know whether anything has changed on the Skype or Speak Out end since then.

15190000 on Can SpeakOut receive skype sms

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:10:31 -0800

I just tried sending a sms to speakout from smartvoip - another voip product. It works well, even i can reply the sms to the caller ID that I setup in smartvoip. skype provides sms function and charges every time a sms is sent even the sms can't be received. It never mentioned and noticed it's users. That's unfair!

iamdrumming on Can SpeakOut receive skype sms

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:14:49 -0800

No, SpeakOut phones are readily able to receive phone to phone texts of course. Skype to SpeakOut phones are a whole different story though.

15190000 on Can SpeakOut receive skype sms

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:01:05 -0800

iamdrumming said:

This was already discussed here:

https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/technical-service-details/skype-sms-and-speakout/

I read the discussion. is this because skype sms is considered as international sms? But my speakout can receive international sms.

RonM on Can SpeakOut receive skype sms

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:20:42 -0800

I just ran a quick test.
I am able to send an SMS from Skype to my Rogers Cell phone even though my caller ID for Skype is the same number as the phone I sent the message to.
I am not able to send an SMS from Skype to my SO phone whether the SIM card is in a 3G phone or a Nokia 1661 on 2G.
If I try to reply from the Rogers phone, I get a message saying that Skype doesn't accept incoming SMS messages.
So whatever is (not) happening is directly related to SO since it works on the mother network on Rogers.

bridonca on Can SpeakOut receive skype sms

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:57:10 -0800

See if you can talk to Speakout customer service and see what they have to say. I have had issues with Google Voice SMS messages not getting through to Speakout also. I wonder if it is related?

iamdrumming on Can SpeakOut receive skype sms

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:56:39 -0800

This was already discussed here:

https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/technical-service-details/skype-sms-and-speakout/

15190000 on Can SpeakOut receive skype sms

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:49:38 -0800

I want to setup my speakout number as skype caller ID a few days ago. But I never received the verification code SMS from skype. Skype customer service said that their system did send the SMS, it's because my telecommunications provider does not support SMS from Skype. Does anyone know about this? Actually I had setup this number as skype caller ID in 2008 successfully, Speakout canceled this now?