Cannot Text to Canada

by Wanda
(Edmonton, Alberta)

I have tried to text Canada 4 times today from Montana and it does not work. I think it has to do with the access number. When you phone, you dial a toll free number, wait for a ring tone and then enter 1 and then the full 10 digit telephone number with another 1 in front of it. When you text, you do not get the opportunity for the dial tone to kick in and then enter the rest of the number.

In the old days when I had dial up Internet, there was a way to do that using commas. I don't know if that would work with texting or not - but I couldn't remember the details today to check it out.

The phone calls to Canada work great.