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Receiving Foreign Breaking News Via Text

Posted: 12-14-2005, 09:31 PM
franzen_torres@yahoo.com
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Does anyone know how I go about receiving breaking news from the
Philippines through my Globe GSM cell phone with international roaming
turned on? I am in the US and the SIM card in the phone is from the
Philippines. For example, the local INQ7 Inquirer newspaper in Manila
is offering a subscription service whereby they send you a text message
with the latest news developments 3 times a day for 2.50 pesos per day.
To subscribe I'm supposed to text "ON BREAKING NEWS" to the number
2207.

However, I''m in the US and when I text to "2207" I get an error
message saying "undeliverable". So how should I format the number -
should it be +63+2207? or 011+63+2207? or 011+63+917+2207? I've tried
all these combinations but they don't seem to work.

Any help with this or any other similar news service would be very much
appreciated. Thanks much.

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Posted: 12-14-2005, 10:18 PM
Why don't you ask your question to them directly ?

http://news.inq7.net/feedback/feedback.php?sendTo=100
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Re: Receiving Foreign Breaking News Via Text
Posted: 12-14-2005, 10:36 PM
franzen_torres@yahoo.com wrote:

> Does anyone know how I go about receiving breaking news from
> the Philippines through my Globe GSM cell phone with
> international roaming turned on? I am in the US and the SIM
> card in the phone is from the Philippines. For example, the
> local INQ7 Inquirer newspaper in Manila is offering a
> subscription service whereby they send you a text message with
> the latest news developments 3 times a day for 2.50 pesos per
> day. To subscribe I'm supposed to text "ON BREAKING NEWS" to
> the number 2207.
>
> However, I''m in the US and when I text to "2207" I get an
> error message saying "undeliverable". So how should I format
> the number - should it be +63+2207? or 011+63+2207? or
> 011+63+917+2207? I've tried all these combinations but they
> don't seem to work.

Have you tried

+632207

- that's the correct way of addressing it internationally.

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Re: Receiving Foreign Breaking News Via Text
Posted: 12-15-2005, 04:16 AM
franzen_torres@yahoo.com wrote:

> To subscribe I'm supposed to text "ON BREAKING NEWS" to the
> number 2207.

Please note that http://www.inq7.net/index_network.htm says to
send "ON EXTRA BREAKING" to 2207. This would normally be
entered as +632207, if it's a Philippines-specific number and
being sent through a foreign SMSC.

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Re: Receiving Foreign Breaking News Via Text
Posted: 12-16-2005, 06:53 AM
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:16:40 +1100, John Henderson
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>franzen_torres@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> To subscribe I'm supposed to text "ON BREAKING NEWS" to the
>> number 2207.
>
>Please note that http://www.inq7.net/index_network.htm says to
>send "ON EXTRA BREAKING" to 2207. This would normally be
>entered as +632207, if it's a Philippines-specific number and
>being sent through a foreign SMSC.

He's using a Globe phone while roaming overseas, which will be
configured with Globe's SMSC, so sending to 2207 (without any prefix)
should work fine.

Chris
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Re: Receiving Foreign Breaking News Via Text
Posted: 12-16-2005, 08:59 AM
Chris Blunt wrote:

> He's using a Globe phone while roaming overseas, which will be
> configured with Globe's SMSC, so sending to 2207 (without any
> prefix) should work fine.

Agreed, except that it doesn't work, according to the original
post - he reports "undeliverable" to 2207.

I also reported a discrepancy in message content between the
OP's text and that required by the web site I found. But that
wouldn't make the subscription request undeliverable.

I would expect +632207 to work universally (to Philippines
2207), from anywhere using any SMSC. I couldn't be sure that
the OP's SMSC setting had been changed in any way. Or
"proxied" somehow for that matter - I note that the SMSC
address embedded within delivered SMS headers sometimes differ
from that configured in the originating phone.

A very important question for the OP is whether SMSs can be sent
and read in both directions between his phone in the US and
normal cell phones in the Philippines.

John
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Re: Receiving Foreign Breaking News Via Text
Posted: 12-16-2005, 11:54 PM

Since OP would be roaming here in the US with his phillipines sim, I no
think receiving SMS would be an issue. He just needs to set it up first
And, he may only be able to do that while on the home network of th
sim

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Re: Receiving Foreign Breaking News Via Text
Posted: 12-17-2005, 02:54 AM
mrcamp wrote:

> Since OP would be roaming here in the US with his phillipines
> sim, I not think receiving SMS would be an issue. He just
> needs to set it up first. And, he may only be able to do that
> while on the home network of the sim.

I don't think it should be an issue either. But when diagnosing
problems, we should "leave no stone unturned".

John
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Re: Receiving Foreign Breaking News Via Text
Posted: 12-18-2005, 05:11 PM
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:59:11 +1100, John Henderson
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>Chris Blunt wrote:
>
>> He's using a Globe phone while roaming overseas, which will be
>> configured with Globe's SMSC, so sending to 2207 (without any
>> prefix) should work fine.
>
>Agreed, except that it doesn't work, according to the original
>post - he reports "undeliverable" to 2207.

I just arrived in the UK from Manila this morning and gave this a try
with my Globe phone while roaming here. A blank message I sent to 2207
(without any prefix) was sent without any problem. A response came
back saying that I hadn't entered any keywords in the message, so that
appears to confirm it did get delivered correctly.

Chris
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Re: Receiving Foreign Breaking News Via Text
Posted: 12-18-2005, 07:27 PM
Chris Blunt wrote:

> I just arrived in the UK from Manila this morning and gave
> this a try with my Globe phone while roaming here. A blank
> message I sent to 2207 (without any prefix) was sent without
> any problem. A response came back saying that I hadn't entered
> any keywords in the message, so that appears to confirm it did
> get delivered correctly.

Absolutely - I think this is what we'd both expect. Analysis of
message content isn't part of standards which cover message
storage and delivery. I'd find it of academic interest to know
whether the same blank SMS to +632207 got the same response.

Without further input from the OP, there's not much more to
suggest at this stage.

John
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