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.

[snaimon]

See signature. I have T-MO, both pre and post paid. I also already have world class roaming and unlimited sms.

The point was I was TRYING to send an SMS from US to my UM card. Both sons are staying here this summer and they COULD (if T-MO) permitted it, send me SMS (15 cents) while I am away. Won't work, however, because T-MO is blocking.

TRUE, I could take the US T-MO SIM and switch SIMs, but I don't want to risk the higher roaming charges for voice. I have heard (but not experienced) that SOMETIMES when your SIM registers on another foreign network that the original US T-MO settings network (call-forward, etc) are reset.

Stan

[b330i]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

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.

I am using Verizon in US so thats why I need a global sim while away. and similar to Stan's scenario, I have a bunch of friends who uses T-mobile in the US... anyways... I just ordered a Cherrymobile sim card...