You can send text messages from your phone to any Sprint Nextel customer that has a phone capable of text messaging, as well as to any customer of another wireless carrier that has a phone capable of text messaging. This includes domestic as well as a selection of international numbers. You can also send text messages to anyone with a valid email address or landline phone.

Sending a Text to Landline message is just like sending a standard text message. Just create a text message from your Sprint Nextel phone, and address it to a 10–digit phone number as you would with a regular text message. Your text is converted to a voice message, which is automatically read to the recipient when he or she answers the phone. If the recipient does not answer the phone, your text message is stored as a voicemail, provided the recipients have voicemail service on their landline phone. Your recipient can also reply to your message.

When texting to an international number, use the following number format, based on which type of phone you’re using:

As an example, to address a text message to France using a Sprint phone, enter the following:

01133<wireless number>

To address a text message to Mexico using a Nextel phone, enter the following:

+521<wireless number>

International text messages can only be sent to or received by wireless subscribers of an international carrier listed on the Country codes for international text messages .

To send a text message to an email address, when addressing the recipient of the text message, instead of entering a phone number, enter an email address. For a Sprint text message being sent to one or more email addresses, the number of characters in the longest email address plus one will be subtracted from the total number of characters you are allowed to put into the body of the message. Spaces and symbols also count towards the total 160. For Nextel text messaging, the same rules apply, but the limit is 500 characters.

As an example, if you text person@domain.com, that gives you 160-18=142 characters available for your message on a Sprint phone, or 500-18=482 characters available on a Nextel phone.

For both Sprint and Nextel phones, this is handset specific. Most pre-typed messages can be found under the options menu when composing a text message. Please refer to your phone manual for specific instructions.

Yes, you can send to more than one person, depending on your particular phone. Also, you can address a message to up to 20 people at one time on the Sprint Nextel Website.

For Sprint phones, if you are not in a coverage area when sending an SMS text message, the message will be stored in the Outbox or Drafts folder, depending on which phone you have, and it will be automatically sent when you return to a coverage area.

For Nextel phones, if you’re out of coverage when sending a text, the message will not be automatically resent; you will need to manually resend it.

If you are a Sprint customer, to text from a computer, go to http://messaging.sprintpcs.com/textmessaging/compose?

If you are a Nextel customer, to text from a computer, go to http://messaging.nextel.com.