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Relate SMS User Guide (BT SMS Server) ~ Issue 3 ~ 2nd Edition ~ 26th March ’04 ~ 6053
SMS Text Messaging
Welcome to the SMS Text Messaging Service on your
BT Relate SMS product. The SMS Service is being
provided by BT.
Your BT Relate SMS can send and receive messages to
any mobile phone from participating mobile networks
and compatible landline telephones in the UK.
The fixed line SMS service is provided under BT’s
terms and conditions for telephone service. These can
be found by visiting the BT.com website at:
http://www.bt.com/terms/tor.htm
To subscribe to the SMS text messaging service
When you send your first SMS text message from your
BT Relate SMS you will automatically be registered for
the service.
On receipt of your first SMS through the service, the
system will send you a welcome SMS message back.
You may also register by sending the word Register
to 00000 upon which you will receive a confirmation
message.
Cost of the fixed line service
There is no subscription charge (other than the
subscription to Caller Display). Visit the BT.com
website (www.bt.com) to find out how much it costs to
send a text message (depends upon your call package).
You may also send messages to landline phones that
are NOT SMS compatible. Messages to non-compatible
lines will be connected to voice text and delivered in
spoken words to the telephone as a call. Please note
that the conversion can translate common abbreviations
and smileys etc, but to ensure maximum clarity of
message delivery, abbreviations etc should be used
sparingly.
Some other network provider lines may not be
compatible with this SMS service.
IMPORTANT
You must subscribe to your Network Provider’s Caller
Display Service in order to use SMS text messaging.
A fee may be payable. For this service to work, your
number must be sent (not withheld). To ensure this,
the SEND server number is prefixed with 1470 which
releases your number for the text call, even if your
number is normally withheld.
Note
If you use Call Divert to a fixed or mobile line then
new messages will be held at the messaging server
until you remove divert and send a message.
