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Ireland to Wales

  • 29-03-2002 2:00am
    #1
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭


    Can you send a SMS text to a mobile in Wales? Will it go through the networks and do you need the international access code?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    bkehoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,153 ✭✭✭bkehoe


    Yes, you can send an sms to anywhere in the world for no extra cost (I think). Just add the country code, e.g. +44 for UK before the regular number, removing the '0' in the area code, e.g. someone sending a message to an 087 phone from outside Ireland would start the number with +35387.

    Brendan


  • #3
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    Depends on whether the mobile originator and the mobile terminator networks have a interconnection agreement. Many network operators have also recently blocked non-domestic SMS traffic as their SMSC’s were being flooded with international SMS’s. I think Vodafone UK may have done this, but am not sure.

    As for cost, you’ll get charged an additional internetwork charge of about €0.055 per SMS to the UK. There is currently no such charge from the UK to Ireland, AFAIK.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I have just received my latest Vodafone bill.
    It had all the roaming I did while ski-ing in Italy last february.
    Thats over two months for it to appear on the Bill.
    I roamed with omnitel over there which is owned by Vodafone.
    All of us used text the whole time and I can tell you I was charged the same rate for all the texts as here in Ireland including texts that were sent to Ireland.
    mm


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