My brother is on Smart. We have no problem texting each other.

Well, actually, I have a little problem when replying to his texts.
Everytime I reply to his texts, I will have to delete the "TO:", which
contains the phonebook entry name of his phone number, and re-select
the same phonebook entry back. Why? Because his phone number comes as
0063920xxxxxxx. And although the phone number in the phonebook entry
is stored as +63920xxxxxxx, my phone still recognizes the former as
the same. If I do not replace the "TO:", the text won't get
transmitted.

I think this is the reason why there were some who claim that it
doesn't work and there were some who claim that it does work.

Steven, you might want to add a note next to the Smart entry on your
website and tell about this.

Cheers!

kaka <== HoFo Id

Steven Fisher <sdfisher@spamcop.net> wrote in news:Gx2Ub.397941$X%5.111269
@pd7tw2no:

I think I was the person that originally reported some problems with
sending/receiving messages to Smart in the Philippines.  At the time it was
not working very well.  Since then it has improved a lot to the point where
sending and receiving messages is now pretty much instantaneous.  I do
however have the same problem that was reported by another person when
replying.  You cannot just use the number on the message and reply to it.  
I just take out the two leading zeroes and add a plus.

Derek