can anybody help me, I need to send a text to Aus and need to know what to prefix the phone number with.
Any help will be muchly appreciated.

+61 will do it. lose the 0 at the begining of their number and you'll be right.

And presumably a number for the state (eg 3 for Vic) after the 61 country code? Australian phone numbers don't have a zero before them eg Melbourne numbers from UK via telephone begin with 6139 (9 being the first part of a Melbourne number).

OzTennis

AFAIK, it's not necessary to add the state area code to a mobile phone number before texting from overseas.

In fact it would stop it getting through

Thanks for that guys - you can tell I don't txt!

OzTennis

A useless statistic - mobile phone companies reported last year that for the first time text messages exceeded 50% of their traffic. Try explaining that to older people - phones that people speak on less than half the airtime!

you gotta text oz t

you can get all the info you need in and sent for 10p or something.

u jst ave 2 lrn 2 spk txt

Was in Argos yesterday and saw a landline-phone-that-sits-on-your-desk (what do you call those things that we used to just call a "phone"?) designed to send SMS messages. I though it was odd, but I guess it would be useful for somebody. I didn't even see a keyboard on it, it looked like you were just supposed to use the number pad like you would on your mobile!

this might help

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...ng.html?p2=152

Cheers WBB

I shld billy (or is it brucey now?)

OzTennis