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Author Can't send SMS to Sprint phone
Ralph Alvy

2008-02-24, 4:33 am

With my new Sprint account, using a Palm Centro, all attempts by VZW users
to send me SMS message result in their getting a return error message
telling them my number "is a landline #. Reply Y to send all TXT messages
to this # as voice."

What gives here?
The Ghost of General Lee

2008-02-24, 4:33 am

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:45:49 GMT, Ralph Alvy <ralph@ralphalvy.com>
wrote:

>With my new Sprint account, using a Palm Centro, all attempts by VZW users
>to send me SMS message result in their getting a return error message
>telling them my number "is a landline #. Reply Y to send all TXT messages
>to this # as voice."
>
>What gives here?


Did you port a land line number to Sprint?

Ralph Alvy

2008-02-24, 10:33 pm

The Ghost of General Lee wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:45:49 GMT, Ralph Alvy <ralph@ralphalvy.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Did you port a land line number to Sprint?


No, this wasn't a ported number. Sprint tried giving me a different number
(in the same area code, which is 424) and the same problem occurred. When a
friend on the ATT network texted my Sprint phone, it got through fine. When
someone on the Sprint network texted me, it got through fine.

When I use a Verizon phone to text a Sprint number in a different area code,
it works fine.

I reported this to Verizon. Verizon is considering it to be their problem.
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