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August 19, 2011
2:23 am
Stevelongmore
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My friend in australia will text me, but for some reason I cant receive them??

August 19, 2011
6:54 am
bridonca
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I do not think Speakout accepts texts coming anywhere than from Canada and maybe the US. My Google Voice texts to my Speakout number can be iffy.

August 19, 2011
9:56 am
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strange. I have no problem texting with google voice(was using the 2500/month package). It was the google side that one day block me for a day saying it hits the send limit

And I have no problem as well sending/receiving to my roaming asian number.

August 19, 2011
10:31 am
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I am not saying it does not work, but I have had flaky experiences with Speakout SMS from other countries. Your mileage will vary, of course.

August 19, 2011
11:40 am
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I did experience flaky SMS when the sender is not a cell but say some SMS service. Like I tried to setup yahoo's email alert or something and it never worked.

August 21, 2011
7:34 am
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I have reliably send text messages to my girlfiend's Speakout phone from Mexico, France, Turkey and Ethiopia.