We’ve been getting a lot of questions about how texting works with Cricket Wireless. Well, here you go! If you’ve got a Cricket phone, here’s what you need to know about SMS.
- Maximum message length: 160 characters
- What happens to longer messages: Unknown
- Cost per message: Free to receive messages; to send messages, you need to sign up for a plan that includes text messaging. Most plans include unlimited messaging to U.S. and Canada. Messages to Mexico cost $0.10 and other international messages cost $0.15 each (except Canada).
- More information: Cricket Wireless Text Messaging Support
- Sending email to a Cricket phone: Your address is [10-digit-phone-number]@sms.mycricket.com. For example, if your phone number is 123-456-7890, your email address would be 1234567890@sms.mycricket.com.If you want to receive multimedia messages (pictures, music and short videos) you use a similar address: 1234567890@mms.mycricket.com (just change the “sms” part of the address to “mms”).
To send a message to a Cricket subscriber (or up to 5 subscribers at a time), use the Cricket Wireless send a text form online. It’s free!
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We've been getting a lot of questions about how texting works
Thank you so much! I followed your instructions and it worked like a charm.
THANKS SO MUCH!!!!
After 160 it says MAX or something it prevents you from continuing its so frustrating
why isnt cricket up to date with facebook texts
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When I sign up for the 1234567890@sms.mycricket.com account, they are suppose to send a confirmation message to my phone with the validation link provided in the message so that I can validate the 1234567890@sms.mycricket.com account but for some reason the confirmation link is not provided. the sentence in the message only goes about half way. The message reads """" [Facebook Contact Email Confirmation] Hey (my name here),1010You recently entered a new contact email address. To confirm …""""" and then the message stops. Its as if it was about to give me the confirmation link but the message gets cut off. Does anybody know how to resolve this.