The Unofficial Speak Out Wireless Canada Consumer Page - Topic: Can't send international text?

chimpanzee on Can't send international text?

Sun, 23 Mar 2014 23:42:14 -0700

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.

Bruce from Montreal on Can't send international text?

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:20:58 -0700

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...

drift on Can't send international text?

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:57:22 -0700

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.

RGM on Can't send international text?

Thu, 06 Mar 2014 08:16:38 -0800

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!!!!!

czg416 on Can't send international text?

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 05:27:08 -0800

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.

drift on Can't send international text?

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:15:34 -0800

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!