Texting From Spain To Uk?

[netibiza]

I want to send a text (from Spain)to a mobile phone in UK, do I put +44 or 0044 and leave off the 0 from the number? Been sending a text since last night and it still hasn't gone through, could this be if the other phone is switched off?

[Sqad]

0044 then leave off the first 0

[RATTER15]

+44 and leave off the 0 from the number as far as I'm aware.

[RATTER15]

I stand corrected, I imagine Sqad would now.

[ummmm]

I do 0044 and leave off the 0.

[netibiza]

Thanks all, I've merrily done it in the past but just cannot at the mo!

[boxtops]

I don't have to add any numbers at all. If the person is already in my phone book on the mobile phone, I just send the text to them as usual. The phone sorts it out.....

[Sqad]

boxy...only you could have a clever phone like that.........

[ummmm]

I have a clever phone like that as well :-)

[boxtops]

noooo sqad, it's always been like that. I just use it as if I were at home, or chez vous on the islands.....

[bhg481]

If you have a British cellphone you just use the normal number ie, just as if you were in the UK. If you have a foreign you'll have to use the +44 or 0044 prefix.

[VHG]

If it is a British mobile phone texting to another British mobile phone then you just text the normal number.

Lets face it, with two British mobile phones, if you had to know what country another person was in before you sent them a text then that would be pretty stupid.

If the other person was only holiday SOMEWHERE in Europe but you did not know what country, you would not be able to send them a text, making the whole point of mobiles phones redundant.

[Old_Geezer]

If you store the numbers in your directory as +44.... rather than 0.... then you probably won't encounter an issue. Yes the local network needs to know it's an international call/text/whatever.

[Old_Geezer]

I write that but then wonder. The foreign network knows you are roaming in Spain, and will ask the UK service provider's database for information. And it should be able to ask/collect/return the information the Spanish service provider needs. I think I am unsure now, and would suggest a "suck it and see" test. It may depend on various thing s such as whether you have roamed or are in Spain usually and stuff like that.

[bhg481]

That used to be necessary OG, in the early days of cellphones but everything is automated now. We've just been rambling round Europe, texted our daughter using her normal 01793 code from Germany, Denmark, Czech Republic, Belgium, France; some of the time she was home, some of the time in Turkey. No problem.

[bhg481]

Incidentally, receiving a text whilst you are abroad usually costs nothing (as in the UK), receiving a phone call does cost something. Making a phone call from abraod costs more than at home, as does sending a text - the charges depend on your network provider.