SMS question

[westernrogue]

Want to thank all for the advice I have read. Will be in Pat nov.6 and will be buying phone there with Sim card. My question is : I know, by what I have read, how to send a SMS message to North America, but how do they respond back? Do they have to use +66 in front of my Thai number or what?

[Hole]

Yes bro, they will have to use +66 then drop the first zero of your Thai number

[ScottyG]

No, don't have to use the "+" sign in front of the 66, just 66, and drop the "0" at the start of your Thai number. I text my fiance there almost everyday and that's how it's done.

[lostagain]

If the number is stored in international format(1) then most cell phones will dial it automatically according to to cell phone's current location:

 

examples: +66(2)555-1234, +66(1)555-1234, +66(8)555-1234

 

These numbers might commonly be shown as:

555-1234, 1-555-1234, 8-555-1234,

or

(02)555-1234, (01)555-1234, (08)555-1234

or

(0)25 551 234, (0)15 551 234, (0)85 551 234

or

+66(02)555-1234, +66(01)555-1234, +66(08)555-1234

or

+66(0)25 551 234, +66(0)15 551 234, +66(0)85 551 234

 

 

(1) ref: Merrian-Webster's Guide to International Business Communications by Toby D. Atkinson ©1996, ISBN 0-87779-128-7

 

There is a later edition available but that is the one I have at handy. It states that Bangkok's system is 7 digits with 6 digits used in other parts of the country. I would suspect the 6 digit systems may have been replaced in the last ten years. Then again I have seen some of the communications cabling in Pattaya so all bets are off.

[westernrogue]

Thanx for the help! Now if I can just handle Pattaya..

[El Cata]

No, don't have to use the "+" sign in front of the 66, just 66, and drop the "0" at the start of your Thai number. I text my fiance there almost everyday and that's how it's done.

 

Didn't work for me. I had to use 0066 & yes drop the zero before your Thai number.

 

i.e 006607791 becomes 00667791.

 

Peace.

[ScottyG]

Didn't work for me. I had to use 0066 & yes drop the zero before your Thai number.

 

i.e 006607791 becomes 00667791.

 

Peace.

Sorry, but the OP and I are both Canadian, and I was responding directly to his question as to how to text him in Thailand from here. Will probably only work like that from Canada, not other areas of the world.

[eXplosief]

Just have them hit reply to 1 of your own messages sent to them.