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International Texting and Motorola Droid

I'm loving my Motorola Droid and Verizon Wireless - came from T-Mobile. The only problem I have now is my ability to text my family in Peru.

Verizon Wireless says it can text Telefonica Movistar but it says 011 + 51 + 9 digit. In mid/late 2009 Telefonica Movistar moved to a 10 digit telephone number system. So when I try to text 011 + 51 + 10 digit, they never get my text messages but Verizon charges $.25/msg. They can text me just fine, I just have to use fishtext.com to send them texts back, which is a bit annoying but does save.

Do you think it might be the Android OS that is causing that problem? How do I need to type it exactly?

Thanks!

-Paul

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Kimberly_Nicole

BigMcGuire wrote:
I'm loving my Motorola Droid and Verizon Wireless - came from T-Mobile. The only problem I have now is my ability to text my family in Peru.

Verizon Wireless says it can text Telefonica Movistar but it says 011 + 51 + 9 digit. In mid/late 2009 Telefonica Movistar moved to a 10 digit telephone number system. So when I try to text 011 + 51 + 10 digit, they never get my text messages but Verizon charges $.25/msg. They can text me just fine, I just have to use fishtext.com to send them texts back, which is a bit annoying but does save.

Do you think it might be the Android OS that is causing that problem? How do I need to type it exactly?

Thanks!
-Paul

Hi. I am glad you love your Droid! I love mine also :smileyhappy: I can certainly look into this further for you. I did research the Telfonica Peru and it seems as if it is 011 + 51 + 9-digits. That is what I see in our system. That should work when you follow that format. What type of carrier is the person you are sending the text to is using?

Waiting on your reply

Thanks!

budone

Are you able to call that person? I did find the following so I think Verizon has not updated their software to accept the additional digit in their system.

Mobile subscriber numbers are now eight digits in Lima (+51 1 9xxx xxxx) and seven digits elsewhere (+51 xx 9xx xxxx).

BigMcGuire

Yes, they have Telefonica Movistar. I dial their number like 01151********** -- It used to be 9 digits but they went to 10 digits last year. I can call without a problem but texting never gets to them. Thanks! Verizon rocks :smileyhappy:

BigMcGuire

Yeah, I think you are right budone - I can call just fine just they never get my sms. All I know is all their mobile numbers went from 9 digits to 10 last year. So 01151 (10 digits after this). The service is Telefonica Movistar.

Liza

I do International texting. What I did was I had my cousin text me first and then I added him to my contacts...that way, I was able to add his # exactly how it was sent, instead of inputting it myself. It seemed to work.

ltf

I international text with my daughter in the UK all the time. Do you use Handcent? It's in the marketplace and free. You also might want to consider Google Talk, also free. I don't pay any additional for those texts to my daughter than I pay other wise for text messages. I can't call her, but have no issue with texting.

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