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Texting from Ireland to China

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  • 30-04-2012 3:11pm
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    stannis
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭


    Hello all, I am currently living in China. I am having a small problem over here regarding getting texts from Ireland.

    My sister can send texts from her Irish mobile to my Chinese mobile with no problems, and I can text her back fine as well. But when my mother sends texts to my mobile, I don't receive them - strangely, though, she can call my mobile, and can also receive my texts to her.

    Any idea why this might be? Could it be a problem with her network, or her mobile phone itself?


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    drunkmonkey
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    What network are you on and what network is she one, see can she text anyone else on the network your on.


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    stannis
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭stannis


    She's on Meteor Ireland, I'm on China Mobile. For what it's worth, my sister is on 3 and as I said she's had no problems texting me.


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    chrislad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    Meteor probably don't have an text agreement with China Mobile. Nothing you can do really, bar get your mother to switch networks or use an app (if applicable) like Whatsapp or Viber.


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    halkar
    Registered Users Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭halkar


    I used to be able to text to China few months ago. Suddenly I can no longer send texts to any mobiles in China. I get message delivery failed errors. I have tried texting from Voda, O2 and Tesco mobile using different phone numbers and handsets. Something fishy going on.:D


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    stannis
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭stannis


    halkar wrote: »
    I used to be able to text to China few months ago. Suddenly I can no longer send texts to any mobiles in China. I get message delivery failed errors. I have tried texting from Voda, O2 and Tesco mobile using different phone numbers and handsets. Something fishy going on.:D

    I might be inclined to think that the Chinese government is blocking them (they love that type of thing) but my sister can still text me no problem. Maybe only 3 network has a text agreement with China Mobile.
    Nothing you can do really, bar get your mother to switch networks or use an app (if applicable) like Whatsapp or Viber.

    Not really options with my technophobe mother, I'm afraid. (She's actually on O2, as it turns out, they must have the same problem.)


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