topic Sending sms to French numbers in Mobile Services

Sending sms to French numbers

vityasemin — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:39:47 GMT

I am trying to send sms to French phone number, but get an error. Sending sms to UK domestic numbers works well. My roaming package is activated. What’s the issue?

Re: Sending sms to French numbers

bristolian — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:55:19 GMT

Roaming refers to using your phone on foreign networks - what you're trying to do is text abroad from the UK, not roam.

Do you have your international call bar lifted? Not having done so would cause the symptoms you describe.

Re: Sending sms to French numbers

vityasemin — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:57:47 GMT

How do I check for international call bar?

Re: Sending sms to French numbers

XRaySpeX — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 23:27:02 GMT

Are you in UK when you try to send to a French no.? If so, you ain't roaming.

Are you on contract or PAYG? If PAYG, International call & texts such as this are not included in your allowances & are therefore chargeable. Do you have sufficient credit to cover them?

International calls & texts to overseas nos. from UK can be rather expensive but EE has a free add-on that anyone, on PAYG or contract, can apply for to give these calls & texts at a fraction of the standard rates. See The Free CALL ABROAD Add-on for Cheap Calls/Texts from UK .

Re: Sending sms to French numbers

vityasemin — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 07:40:54 GMT

Yes I am in UK and I use pay as you go. I purchased yesterday the 200 texts add on that promised I would be able to send sms to EU. It still doesn’t work

Re: Sending sms to French numbers

Leanne_T — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:04:34 GMT

Hi @vityasemin

Thanks for coming back to us.

Which add-on did you purchase? Is this for international texts?

Leanne.

Re: Sending sms to French numbers

vityasemin — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:06:31 GMT

I selected this one as it promised EU texts will be available

Re: Sending sms to French numbers

Leanne_T — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:38:38 GMT

Thanks @vityasemin

Please give us a call and the team can check the account for you and make sure everything is set up for you to send texts to non UK numbers 🙂

Leanne.