SMS 411 » Cricket http://sms411.net Everything you need to know about text messaging with your mobile phone. Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:43:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cricket Wireless http://sms411.net/2010/03/cricket-wireless/ http://sms411.net/2010/03/cricket-wireless/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:34:55 +0000 Dylan Tweney http://sms411.net/?p=101 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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