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Re: Not receiving SMS from international numbers
morto wrote: The December 2022 time line matches with when I started to have issues as well. I wonder what was implemented and never disclosed to the customers. 😁 There are so many elements to this that would be funny if not completely frustrating. For example, I did get many calls from some executive team, and it seemed like they had no access to the previous tickets. In one call she kept asking me what is that "Cosmote" carrier in Greece I was texting to. So I had to educate her that it is yet another Deutsche Telecom subsidiary, same as T-Mobile.🙄 https://www.cosmote.gr/cs/otegroup/en/omilos_ote.html But of course, that did not lessen the impossibility of sending and receiving an sms from one subsidiary to the other...64Visto1like0ComentariosRe: International SMS to Greece not working
Spartan 480 BC wrote: Thank you for explaining. Do you think their is an chance that the problem will get resolved ? Like I said up until last November I was able to receive SMS from Greece? Thank you again. If you learn or have have any further help or ideas please let me know I would greatly appreciate it. I do not know about the bank codes specifically. I use a Greek number (I have it on my phone as a second sim) for SMS from banks, and that is how I receive them. As for regular SMS from Greece, T-Mobile does not care to fix it. I even had someone from their "rapid response" team reach out to me, and they again had no answer other than blaming the sender in Greece. No matter telling them the problem persists withdifferent senders in different carriers in Greece, and that neither AT&T nor Verizon have the same issue, it was going through one Magenta ear and out the other.17Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: T-mobile unable to fix SMS problems with Greece
fireguy_6364 wrote: not overly sure. i know that for the most part i have noticed the esim mentioned the majority of the time the issues have been brought up. i know Mexico its been mentioned a LOT of times..something about compatibility and those countries being able to handle them or not. or at least the tower owners/whatnot allowing them or being compatible with them. from what i have seen usually its their network not being compatible with the esim yet. I kinda understand that. Then again, networks in Greece do have esim. Even more, the network I cannot even send an SMS too, COSMOTE, was the first to launch eSim in Greece, and is another Deutsche Telecom company like T-Mobile. :) And as I said, the problem presents with physical sim also.35Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: T-mobile unable to fix SMS problems with Greece
fireguy_6364 wrote: are you by chance using a esim or physical sim? i know you mentioned a physical sim for the V and ATT tester sims but didnt mention the TMO sim. only reason im asking is i have noticed a lot of international roaming issues with the esim where the physical sim always seems to work. I am using an esim for TMobile, which I also suspected for a while, but my friend uses an physical sim and had the same issue. There was another user here, drnewcomb, who helped me by sending an sms to the same number, and it did not go through. And with other countries, international sms texting works. So, doesn't that preclude an esim issue? Thanks for the suggestion though.35Visto0likes0ComentariosT-mobile unable to fix SMS problems with Greece
Here is an update on the previous thread of being able to receive SMS from any Greek carrier.I literally had 12 tickets opened with Tforce on twitter and 611. They promised they would escalate it. They never did. First, they said it was the sender. I gave them multiple numbers with the problem. I told them that when I switch the network from automatic to AT&T, even on wifi, messages did come through. When I told them more than one line had the problem, they asked for the second line. Their conclusion: it was the device. I used Verizon as a trial esim on my device and my friend used AT&T. No problem. And yet, T-mobile comes back with "ask the sender to check their network," "it's your device," and "line is provisioned correctly for SMS." I am horrified both at the bad customer service that refused to really escalate it to a level where it could be solved, and at myself for allowing this to happen when they kept running me around in circles.286Visto1like4ComentariosRe: Not receiving SMS from international numbers
syaoran wrote: Try reaching out to T-Mobile via DM through Facebook or Twitter. You start off at a tier 2 level of support that way. Hopefully they can find a resolution or at least look further into things for you. Sadly, six tickets later, four of them with twitter, have yielded no results.90Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Not receiving SMS from international numbers
syaoran wrote: ljv wrote: Depends on the country. I have not been able to receive an SMS from Greece since December (and they cannot receive them from meeither) but that is not true of all countries. Maybe T-Mobile will one day decide to have its engineers actually work on it. Mentioning Greece specifically does help narrow things down a lot. I don't know anyone in Greece to test whether or not texting works. Correct number formatting when calling and texting is very important in both directions. Have you tried reaching out to Customer Care to make sure there isn't a block on international calls and texts on your line? Six tickets over two weeks, with zero result. Hence I even reached out to the community here on a different post if anyone knew of any way to escalate this (they told me they never do--they only look at the customer line only)38Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Not receiving SMS from international numbers
Depends on the country. I have not been able to receive an SMS from Greece since December (and they cannot receive them from meeither) but that is not true of all countries. Maybe T-Mobile will one day decide to have its engineers actually work on it.42Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: International SMS to Greece not working
drnewcomb wrote: ljv wrote: drnewcomb wrote: The Greek number. Ironically, it is a COSMOTE number, another Deutsche Telecom company, just like T-Mobile. Right. That's what I wanted to check. 697's been a COSMOTE prefix for at least 20 years. I've got no explanation for this. Yeah, I have been texting to that number for years. Something changed in the message relay path in December, but T-Mobile has been unable to fix it (or been willing to). Incidentally, I do not get incoming messages from that country from other carriers also. I wonder if that is the kind of thing they may eventually fix on their own. Then again, it has been almost 5 months...20Visto1like0Comentarios