united mobile sms issue with tmobile USA

[MATHA531]

Originally Posted by b330i

Thanks for the info, Stan... I guess I have no choice but to get another global sim card...

Who is your US provider? If it's either Cingular or T Mobile USA you can activate international roaming and send sms message at not terribly bad rates (something like 35¢ per message)....receiving message will be in accordance with your plan.

I know I have a T Mobile USA plan with unlimited text messaging..yes I pay to send text messages while roaming internationally but my plan allows me to receive unlimited text messages for free...I use it, for example, to keep up with sports scores of my favorite teams...I have a service that allows me to be notified every time a run is scored in a Met game almost as soon as it occurs; that certainly might not be important to most people but it's important to me.

So I bring and keep my T Mobile phone with me despite the fact I have international and local sims...making sure of course to forward all calls into the T Mobile number back to my home number which then forwards to wherever so I don't get hit with the double whammy T Mobile uses to rip people off who don't answer incoming calls and have the calls bounce back to voicemail.