Excuse me, heroes: How much is it to send a text message to China from abroad?

The tariff standard for mobile phone users to send short messages to foreign mobile phones in China is fixed, such as 1 yuan for China mobile users and 0.8 yuan for China Unicom users. Regardless of specific countries or regions, users do not need to open international long-distance and international roaming functions. Just remember to add "+country code" before the other party's number.

The second type: from abroad to China.

If mobile phone users send short messages to China abroad, the charges vary from a few cents each, but the most expensive one will not exceed that of 2 yuan. Before going abroad, users need to open international long-distance and international roaming functions, and add "+country (region) code" when sending. In terms of receiving short messages, receiving short messages abroad is free, but MMS is not included, because the latter will generate Internet traffic charges.

There are many ways to save money.

Generally speaking, it is more economical for users to send short messages abroad than to make phone calls, but the amount of money saved depends on the specific country or region.

Sending text messages to China is relatively cheap.

Compared with calling, sending text messages back to China is undoubtedly relatively cheap. The cheapest is that in the United States, sending short messages to China is only 0.49 RMB each, while in other countries, the highest is only 2 yuan RMB.

In some countries, the price advantage of SMS is more obvious. For example, in Russia, it costs 25.99 yuan/minute to make a phone call, which is more than ten times more expensive than the short message fee (see attached table).

A short message should not exceed 70 words.

Many users want to finish their sentences in one breath in order to save the short message fee, which leads to the lengthy content of short messages. According to the operator's regulations, the capacity of a short message does not exceed 70 Chinese characters or 140 characters of digital or English information. If the character exceeds the capacity, it will be automatically truncated and sent separately.

According to the charging rules, you must collect money according to several pieces when you open them. Therefore, users should use the "70-word short message" rule, and there is no need to pay for content with more than a few words.

Use Fetion to send free short messages.

If users go abroad with their laptops and can surf the Internet locally, they can send short messages to domestic mobile phones through Fetion, which saves a lot of short message fees and only generates the internet fees for laptops. However, if users use Fetion on their mobile phones, it is not cost-effective, and the mobile Internet traffic fee is far more expensive than the SMS fee.

According to the charging rules of some foreign operators, when customers roaming on their networks call the calling party, although the other party doesn't answer after ringing, they will still charge the calling party the communication fee because they occupy their network communication channel. Please pay attention to this.

Reminder: there is no charge for the mobile phone to display "sending failed"

There are always users who are worried when sending international short messages: Is it money if they don't receive it? The reporter learned that whether to charge depends on whether it is sent successfully, not whether the other party receives it.

Because international short messages must be transferred through many servers, the chances of delay and loss are indeed greater than those of domestic short messages, but these chances are smaller. China SMS may be rejected by foreign SMS service centers, but this situation is rare. In addition, due to the time difference, the SMS receiver is often turned off, but the received information will be kept for 48 hours.

Some users are also worried that if the other party's number is entered incorrectly or the mobile phone display fails to send, will there be any expenses? The answer is no charge. Most mobile phones will prompt "sending failed" and operators will not charge. However, if the receiver's phone is turned off, his mobile phone will display "successful sending", even if the other party may not receive the short message, the short message fee will be charged.