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sending a text from australia to vladivostok

Way to Russia Talk Lounge Forum Index -> Travel Advice (Practicalities)

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paulfromaus
Just Starting

Joined: 26 Feb 2009
Posts: 2
Location: Adelaide south australia

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:50 am Post subject: sending a text from australia to vladivostok

Hi my first post here and first question can anybody help me please . I can ring my friends mobile from Aus and she can ring my mobile from Vladivostok yet neither can text . They send but never arrive at eachothers phones. Is there a secret we are unaware of . Any help would be appreciated .

Ender
WayToRussified

Joined: 23 Aug 2006
Posts: 498
Location: Urals

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:22 pm Post subject: Re: sending a text from australia to vladivostok

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paulfromaus wrote:

Hi my first post here and first question can anybody help me please . I can ring my friends mobile from Aus and she can ring my mobile from Vladivostok yet neither can text . They send but never arrive at eachothers phones. Is there a secret we are unaware of . Any help would be appreciated .

You need to check if your and her mobile operator support SMS transfer between them. I have same situation with my Australian colleagues. We can talk, but we can't send SMS eachother. They use Optus (www.optus.com.au) and I use U-Tel (www.u-tel.ru). Unfortunately operators said that they wouldn't take any steps in order to make SMS transfer possible. Thus we use alternative (and cheap) ways to contact - e-mail, Skype, instant messenging, etc.

UsualSuspect
WayToRussified

Joined: 08 May 2003
Posts: 324
Location: The Land of Oz

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:42 am Post subject:

Paul, I'll check with my wife, but I'm fairly certain your Russian friend has to have a "Federal" mobile number. IIRC (and again I'll check...) the moby number YOU dial should start "+9blahdeblah". There is also the problem of cyrillic/latin texts being sent/received to said mobile phones. HTH Usualsuspect

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