Limited International Text Message Partners
I switched from AT&T GSM to Cingular GSM but I am wondering when Cingular plans to update their International Text Messaging Partners. With AT&T, you could text with 5 carriers in the UK. With Cingular, they only have agreements with 2 carriers. The funny thing is that all the sales persons in the Cingular store and 800 number believe that Cingular/AT&T should be the same for this? Anyone have info when Cingular will update this? -Marc
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noord said:
I switched from AT&T GSM to Cingular GSM but I am wondering when Cingular plans to update their International Text Messaging Partners. With AT&T, you could text with 5 carriers in the UK. With Cingular, they only have agreements with 2 carriers. The funny thing is that all the sales persons in the Cingular store and 800 number believe that Cingular/AT&T should be the same for this? Anyone have info when Cingular will update this? -Marc
Actually, the reps are correct in that it should be the same. The day we bought AT&T, we also got the roaming revenue and agreements that were set up under them unless and agreement was made to discontinue the relationships. If you are going by the text mess...
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Thanks for the info. I still do not think Cingular 'handshakes' with the 5 networks in the UK you listed. Here is why:
-I switched my girlfriend from AT&T to Cingular about one month ago. Her friends in UK did not get her text messages from her Cingular phone (nor did she receive any) so I switched her back to AT&T and she is getting all her messages (both sent and received) from all the various UK carriers.
-Also, when you receive an international text on an AT&T phone...it comes up with UK number of sender (or name if stored in phone book). With Cingular, international texts come up as a random UK [email protected] something like that. Basically, the sender from UK has to put their name in the text or you do not ...
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-I switched my girlfriend from AT&T to Cingular about one month ago. Her friends in UK did not get her text messages from her Cingular phone (nor did she receive any) so I switched her back to AT&T and she is getting all her messages (both sent and received) from all the various UK carriers.
-Also, when you receive an international text on an AT&T phone...it comes up with UK number of sender (or name if stored in phone book). With Cingular, international texts come up as a random UK [email protected] something like that. Basically, the sender from UK has to put their name in the text or you do not ...
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