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Texting Overseas...
Okay so my boyfriend is currently overseas and he took his US at&t cell phone overseas with him. The cell phone works where he is right now so he texted me but I was wondering how much it is going to cost each of us for every text we send to each other. Is it the .50 cents for him to send to me and .25 cents for me to send to him? Am I going to be charged to receive the text message he sends even though it is a US phone to another US phone that is not in the United States? Also how much would it cost him to call me or me to call him per minute? Is it the 2.49 that is used for international calls?
Thanks for your help!
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Planet-Ed
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15 years ago
For you:
http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/messaging-internet/messaging/international.jsp
For him:
http://www.wireless.att.com/answer-center/main.jsp?t=solutionTab&ft=searchTab&ps=solutionPanels&locale=en_US&_dyncharset=UTF-8&solutionId=52593&isSrch=Yes
For you to call him that will depend on where he is:
http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/index.jsp
http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/long-distance/in-the-us.jsp
For him:
http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/roaming/international-roaming.jsp
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dmapr
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15 years ago
Correction: as long as the boyfriend is using his AT&T cell abroad nothing changes for the OP, there are no additional charges to send/receive messages and make/receive calls to that number, that would only apply if he were using a local number — but then the AT&T roaming rates would not apply to him.
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finnamariealiz
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15 years ago
Wait let me see if I understand this correctly... If he sent me a text message I wouldn't be charged extra to receive it or to send one back to him? Is that what your saying? As long as he is using his us at&t cell phone with a US number? Same thing with the calling he would just have to pay roaming and I wouldn't have to pay anything extra to get the call? And the rates wouldn't be different if I called him, it would be the same as if he was in the United States? Did I understand what you meant?
Sorry I just want to make sure I understand what your saying.... Thanks for the quick reply!
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hme83
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15 years ago
Yes, so long as he is using his at&t SIM even though he is out of the country all of your charges for calling, texting, MMS, etc. will be the same as if he were next door. 🙂
He is the only one who will incur additional charges - $0.50 for each SMS he sends/receives, $1.30 for each MMS, and the international roaming rate for calling based on the country he is visiting.
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dmapr
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Incoming SMS/MMS don't cost anything extra even for the person who's roaming, only outgoing 😉
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finnamariealiz
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15 years ago
So If I call him I wont be charged anything more then if he was here in the states?
Thank you so much for all of your help!
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dmapr
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hme83
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finnamariealiz
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Haha Great! Thank you so much for all of your help!! 🙂
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dmapr
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