What is International Short Message Service?
International Short Message Service (SMS) offers mobile customer to send message from their mobile phone to the mobile phones of others countries. Instead of making IDD call you can communicate with your friends and relatives at any time sending SMS which saves your cost.
When and who can Send International SMS?
All NEPAL TELECOM Mobile customers can send SMS at all time, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, which need no IDD call facility and extra deposit.
What is the charging rate of sending International SMS?
Charging rate of International SMS is Rs. 10 per successful SMS. If SMS send is unsuccessful no charge taken. Incoming International SMS are free.
How to send International SMS?
Sending International SMS is the same as sending normal SMS except you have to entry international dialing code and country code before the mobile number of recipient. Compose a message with content and send it to the mobile recipient's mobile number as shown in this example.
If you are sending a International SMS to the mobile number 7701XXXXXX of BT Cellnet, U.K., you must enter in following sequence of numbers.
00 44 7701 XXXXXX Where,
00 : International dialing code
44 : Country code of U.K.
7701: National destination code for BT Cellnet
X : Any number between 0 to 9
Where can I send International SMS ?
You can receive or send message to countries and operators who has international roaming relationship with NEPAL TELECOM mobile. NEPAL TELECOM Mobile has international roaming relationship with 51 operators of 23 countries and the number is growing. You can send International SMS to following countries mobile phone customers, if his/her phone numbers begin with following national destination code as listed in table below.