List of Supported Wireless Carriers and Countries for Text (SMS) Messaging
Description
Yahoo! supports mobile text messaging (SMS) internationally. Yahoo! supports SMS for mobile devices in the following countries by the carriers indicated below. The short codesShort codes are special short telephone numbers that can be used to address SMS messages for mobile phones. are also listed for each carrier.
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Note: If you're mobile carrier and country are not listed below, you will not be able to utilize the SMS feature of Yahoo! Messenger.
Canada: FIDO and ROGERS - 92466000, TELUS - 92466
India: AIRTEL, VODAFONE, IDEA, BSNL, RELIANCE, TATA (Indicom and DoCoMo), LOOP, MTNL (Delhi & Mumbai), UNINOR and MTS - 56767775
Indonesia: BAKRIE, EXCELCOM, and MOBILE8 - 9246, HUTCH3 - 92466, INDOSAT - 946, TELKOMSEL - 4246, SMART - 946
Kuwait: WATANIYA - 1411
Malaysia: CELCOM - 22235, DIGI - 32235, MAXIS - 32235
Pakistan: MOBILINK - 171
Philippines: GLOBE - 2258, Sun Cellular - 2466, SMART - 62580
Thailand: AIS - 4508040, DTAC - 1924668
United States: ATT, BOOST, NEXTEL (including Sprint), SPRINT (including Sprint Re-sellers), T-MOBILE, US CELLULAR, VERIZON, and VIRGIN - 92466
Vietnam: HTMOBILE, MOBIFONE, S-FONE, VIETTEL, and VINAPHONE - 8269, GTEL - 8269
To learn how to send an SMS message, please read the help article, "Sending text messages with Yahoo! Messenger."
Additional Information
- Sometimes SMS text messages and registration seem functional when using a carrier not listed above. However, we cannot guarantee availability or functionality of SMS messaging using an unsupported carrier.
- Alltel (US) customers now under Allied Wireless were previously supported by Yahoo! Messenger. We no longer provide support for this carrier.
- If would like Yahoo! to consider supporting your country or carrier, follow these steps to provide feedback to our Yahoo! Messenger for Mobile team.