I posted this on this on the AT&T Customer Support forum, but it doesn't
look like I'm going to get an answer, so here goes...

THREE QUESTIONS:

(1) I have a Siemens S46 phone, and have been sending international text
messages to the numbers I use to voice-call i.e.

01144... etc.

01152... etc.

I read that Next Generation Phones should use the "+" symbol rather than 011
in front of the number.

The phone said "message sent" but will my text messages just disappear into
nowhere?

I have received no message undeliverable messages.

(2) How do I enter the "+" symbol if I have to precede numbers with this?

(3) Will I still be able to voice-call an international number beginning
with the "+" symbol?

>I read that Next Generation Phones should use the "+" symbol rather than 011
>in front of the number.

Within the GSM specification it says that it will recognize the + as the
indication of an international call. The GSM system will then dial the
appropriate international access code (here in the US it is 011). So a call to
the UK could be entered as +44-<phone number>.

If you have it in your dialing directory as +44<number> when you are in the
USA, the GSM system will know to diall 011 replacing the +. If you are in
Nigeria, it would replace the + with 009 etc....

For those of us who travel the world it is a shortcut built into the GSM system
AND it means that we don't have to remember the international access code in
every country that we visit.

On my phone that I carry with me around the world, I have all the phonebook
entries entered in the +<number> format.

--
John S.
e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:47:56 GMT, "simonc" <no@email.com> wrote:

>(2) How do I enter the "+" symbol if I have to precede numbers with this?

If you read your owner's manual it probably will tell you how to do
it. Most handset manufacturers have something like hold the 0 button
til it turns into the + symbol or others have you press the * key
twice rapidly. Odds are that if you look in your owner's manual it
will tell you how to make the plus character.

>(3) Will I still be able to voice-call an international number beginning
>with the "+" symbol?

Yes. The availability of the "+" symbol is so you won't have to know
what the international access code is wherever you are whether it's
Europe, Asia, Africa or North America.
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