Cellular GSM Technology - Worldwide SMS dialing rules

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Worldwide SMS dialing rules

SwordAngel

2008-03-08, 7:33 am

Hello guys,

Would anybody know of a universal way to compose any given phone
number for sending SMS text messages, regardless of home operator,
host operator, current location (i.e. even if I am roaming), and cost?

I don't want to have to learn all the dialing rules of the different
countries while roaming.

Andreas Wenzel

2008-03-08, 10:33 am

SwordAngel schrieb:
> Hello guys,
>
> Would anybody know of a universal way to compose any given phone
> number for sending SMS text messages, regardless of home operator,
> host operator, current location (i.e. even if I am roaming), and cost?
>
> I don't want to have to learn all the dialing rules of the different
> countries while roaming.

Use the international dialling number format:

+<country code><area code without leading zero><phone number>

E.g. if your US buddy's number is (703) 234 5678, put "+17032345678" in
your phonebook. If your UK buddy says his number is 02912345678, put
"+442912345678" in your phonebook.

http://www.mobalrental.com/gsm_calls.asp

Andreas

mrcamp

2008-03-09, 3:33 pm

Just store all your numbers in the international format mentioned above.
Then you can call/dial from any country as is.

Andreas Wenzel;746778 Wrote:
> SwordAngel schrieb:-
> Hello guys,
>
> Would anybody know of a universal way to compose any given phone
> number for sending SMS text messages, regardless of home operator,
> host operator, current location (i.e. even if I am roaming), and
> cost?
>
> I don't want to have to learn all the dialing rules of the different
> countries while roaming.-
>
> Use the international dialling number format:
>
> +country codearea code without leading zerophone number
>
> E.g. if your US buddy's number is (703) 234 5678, put "+17032345678" in
>
> your phonebook. If your UK buddy says his number is 02912345678, put
> "+442912345678" in your phonebook.
>
> http://www.mobalrental.com/gsm_calls.asp
>
> Andreas

--
mrcamp

SwordAngel

2008-03-10, 4:33 am

Hi Andreas,

I was suspecting that this would be the correct solution. However, I
needed confirmation since I hear rumors that the international dialing
number format does not work for sending SMS messages from Mainland
China.

Thanks and Regards

On Mar 8, 10:12=A0pm, Andreas Wenzel <awspambuc...@gmx.de> wrote:
> SwordAngel schrieb:
>
>
>
>
> Use the international dialling number format:
>
> +<country code><area code without leading zero><phone number>
>
> E.g. if your US buddy's number is (703) 234 5678, put "+17032345678" in
> your phonebook. If your UK buddy says his number is 02912345678, put
> "+442912345678" in your phonebook.
>
> http://www.mobalrental.com/gsm_calls.asp
>
> Andreas

Chris Blunt

2008-03-10, 4:33 am

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 21:08:22 -0700 (PDT), SwordAngel
<swordangel@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Andreas,
>
>I was suspecting that this would be the correct solution. However, I
>needed confirmation since I hear rumors that the international dialing
>number format does not work for sending SMS messages from Mainland
>China.

You could be right there.

I store all my phone numbers in the standard international format, but
many years ago I discovered while visiting Australia that the Optus
network there would not recognise it when sending local SMS messages.
I had to send those texts using the domestic format (with a leading
zero).

The situation may have changed there since then.

Chris

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>On Mar 8, 10:12_pm, Andreas Wenzel <awspambuc...@gmx.de> wrote:

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