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Title: Texting Canada Post by: Ginger on July 16, 2008, 07:24:24 PM Can anyone help out please, I need to send some urgent texts to Canada, but trying to use the +1 or 001 code in front of the number is returning a failed message.
Is there a different code I should be using? any help much appreciated xx Title: Re: Texting Canada Post by: Graham C on July 16, 2008, 07:36:44 PM Did you remove the zero at the start of the normal number?
Title: Re: Texting Canada Post by: Ginger on July 16, 2008, 07:38:19 PM the number I have has no zero anyway, it starts with 403 and is 10 digits.
Title: Re: Texting Canada Post by: Longines on July 16, 2008, 07:41:15 PM If their phone network is CDMA rather than GSM, you won'r be able to text them.
http://www.justlanded.com/english/Canada/Tools/Just-Landed-Guide/Telephone-Internet/Cell-phones Title: Re: Texting Canada Post by: Ginger on July 16, 2008, 07:50:02 PM is that for outside phones taken into Canada, or Canadian phones too?
Sorry, my heads a bit all over the place, but it was like reading greek at the mo. It's a Canadian mobile i'm trying to text. Title: Re: Texting Canada Post by: Graham C on July 16, 2008, 08:11:33 PM 403 is the code for Calgary.
No further help but a free phone number for a Canadian Operator is 0800 89 0016 - it's from the BT homepage (http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/international/record.publisha?SearchType=Name&nid=L40&cid=&x=42&y=9) Title: Re: Texting Canada Post by: Sunday8pm on July 16, 2008, 08:11:33 PM the number I have has no zero anyway, it starts with 403 and is 10 digits. try taking out the 4 so whatever the dialling code is + 03xxxxxxx Title: Re: Texting Canada Post by: Ginger on July 16, 2008, 08:16:18 PM 403 is the code for Calgary. No further help but a free phone number for a Canadian Operator is 0800 89 0016 - it's from the BT homepage (http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/international/record.publisha?SearchType=Name&nid=L40&cid=&x=42&y=9) Yep, it's Calgary I'm calling. Starting to think the number they have down as their mobile is actually a land line.... which would be ok, but recently she's moved... grrrr. so whatever the dialling code is + 03xxxxxxx yep, even tried that too lol. no joy Title: Re: Texting Canada Post by: Graham C on July 16, 2008, 08:20:20 PM Must be a land line, mobiles don't have area codes (I assume they are like us)
Title: Re: Texting Canada Post by: Longines on July 16, 2008, 09:18:07 PM North American mobiles are assigned a geographic area code - one of the main reasons being the user-pays model they use. So you'd expect to see a mobile with a 403 dialling code.
Title: Re: Texting Canada Post by: Suited_Jock on July 16, 2008, 09:21:32 PM Did you include the words "buddy" and "guy" if not the text bounces..
Title: Re: Texting Canada Post by: Ginger on July 16, 2008, 09:34:13 PM lol, no I didn't use those words, maybe that was the problem!
I think I'll have to give up with the mobile until I can verify if it's the current one. Thanks anyway everyone. xx |