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Sending texts from Spain

Anonymous
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I have Samsung Galaxy Ace and have just returned from week in Spain. In that week I could receive texts but not send them. As soon as I returned to UK could send texts again.

 

Anyone know why this would happen?

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Anonymous
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For anyone that is interested, text messaging works fine with Data Roaming switched off. Spoke with O2 Guru who could not help. If you want to send texts (at cost) then I recommend switching off Data Roaming (and not using O2 Travel) and just connect through wifi instead.

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Anonymous
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Out of interest did you recieve a text when you first switched you phone on in spain from 02? 

 

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Anonymous
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I understood it automatically went on to O2 Travel
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Yes
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Anonymous
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I'm now back in Spain and have discovered that I can only send texts with data roaming switched off.

 

This is a nuisance as I can only receive emails etc with data roaming on. 

 

Is this normal or am I missing something?

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Anonymous
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For anyone that is interested, text messaging works fine with Data Roaming switched off. Spoke with O2 Guru who could not help. If you want to send texts (at cost) then I recommend switching off Data Roaming (and not using O2 Travel) and just connect through wifi instead.

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