Guide to SMS

Today SMS services substantially extended and allow you not only to send and get shortened SMS messages from/to GSM standard phone but also efficiently use SMS using Internet.

To send SMS messages, you need to enter MTS Messaging Center's number at +38050000501 to store it in your phone memory.

You may send and get SMS messages:

• Phone-to-phone
• from phone to e-ma³l account
• from e-ma³l to phone
• from Internet to phone

Find out also about:

• How to get SMS messages from Internet in Cyrillic
• Transliteration of SMS messages
• SMS transliteration ban
• Shortening in SMS
• Smiles in SMS
• Address e-mail book to send SMS messages
• How to hide your phone number when sending and receiving SMS or using nickname
• How to get information about account status for GSM contract subscribers

SMS Messaging Phone-to-Phone

SMS phone-to-phone messaging is the easiest way to use the service: open the menu section: "Messages" and then – "Send SMS".

Enter your message and subscriber's phone number in international format:

+ 380 < GSM network operator code>.

For example, to send SMS to a subscriber of MTS network, press: + 380 50 ÕÕÕ ÕÕ ÕÕ, where:

• + Indicator used in GSM standard phones in exchange for the international access from any country;
• 380 – international code of Ukraine;
• 50 – code of MTS network;
• ÕÕÕ ÕÕ ÕÕ – subscriber's phone number.

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SMS Messaging Abroad

To send SMS to a subscriber of foreign GSM network operator, enter + and subscriber’s phone number in international format:

+ < country code > < network code >< phone number >.

For example, +420 73 ÕÕÕÕÕÕÕ, where:

• 420 – international code of Czech Republic;
• 73 – code of T-Mobile operator;
• ÕÕÕÕÕÕÕ – subscriber's phone number.

Attention! As China Mobile requested to channel SMS exchange via CITIC transit operator, the SMS exchange will be outlined in the following format: 

• When sending SMS to a China Mobile subscriber you get immediately a report on message delivery even if the subscriber's phone is switched off and SMS has not arrived yet;
• When a China Mobile subscriber gets your message, your number is shown in the format 00380 50 ÕÕÕÕÕÕÕ, however if a subscriber is located within China, he/she may send SMS back to your number in the above format or in international standard +380 50 ÕÕÕÕÕÕÕ.

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SMS from phone to email

To send SMS message from your GSM-phone to electronic mail:

• at the beginning of SMS message, enter an email address in a standard form: name@domain. If there is no symbol @ on the screen of your phone handset, use the following symbols instead: ? or &;
• then enter a COMPULSORY word space to separate e-mail address from the message text;
• not mandatory: enter the Subject by separating it at the beginning and at the end of the message by "!";
• write a short message and sign it;
• send an SMS message at 1010 number.

Example of SMS-message:

Fr³end@yahoo.com !vstrecha! vstret³ms³a segodn³a v 7-00. Olga.

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SMS from e-ma³l to phone

To email SMS messages to an email subscriber of MTS GSM-standard network:

• Enter the recipient's number in
• National format 8 050 ÕÕÕ ÕÕÕÕ, or
• International +38 050 ÕÕÕ ÕÕÕÕ (desirably);
• Add the following address to the email address: @sms.mts.com.ua;
  For example: e-ma³l address of a recipient who holds a phone number starting from, 050 310-ÕÕÕÕ, will be as follows +38050310ÕÕÕÕ@sms.mts.com.ua;
• Type in the Subject, message text and send it similarly to sending a regular email address.

To send an SMS message to a GSM network subscriber domestically or internationally, add address of email gateway of SMS center of the cellular operator (where recipient is subscribed) to the subscriber's number in international format.

Attention! Not every operator offers support to its subscribers in receiving SMS messages sent from email address. For more details contact your operator on availability of such option from a sender and email gateway of SMS center.

For instance: e-ma³l address of a subscriber in Austria subscribed to Mobikom operator and holding a mobile phone number 43 664 521-ÕÕÕÕ, may be presented in the following format +43664521ÕÕÕÕ@sms.mobikom.at.

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SMS from Internet to phone

Send SMS to a MTS subscriber or subscribers of other GSM operators in Ukraine. MTS subscribers may enjoy this service at no charge!

Online users may also sent SMS messages from http://www.mts.com.ua.

Receiving SMS messages from Internet in Cyrillic

If your handset offers option of Russian or Ukrainian languages, and you are wishing to get SMS-messages from Internet in Russian and Ukrainian, send an SMS message containing any text from your phone at 10108. 

Following your inquiry all SMS messages from Internet written in Russian and Ukrainian, will be delivered at your address in the language of the original message.

To reject the service, send again an SMS-message containing any text from your phone at 10108.

Cost of SMS-message sending on a number 10108 is standard, in obedience to your tariff package.

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SMS Transliteration

Sending SMS messages to email address, you may use transliteration.

While transmitting SMS message, at your request, all English letters will be automatically changed for Russian or Ukrainian.

To transmit messages in:

• Russian, send it at 10101;
• Ukrainian, send it at 10102;
• English, send it at 10103.

SMS transliteration corresponds to transliteration chart.

Banning SMS Transliteration

If a text of your SMS contains a word that should not be transliterated, this word needs to be separated on two sides by #.

For example, to send a message in Russian, you are required:

• Enter: fr³end@hotma³l.com Vstrecha v 7-00 v #McDonalds#. ²gor'
• And send the message at 10101.

A recipient will get a transliterated message in Russian:
Âñòðå÷à â 7-00 â McDonalds. Èãîðü.

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E-mail Address Book for SMS Delivery

Enter an email address you use most frequently for sending SMS-messages, into an email address book stored in SMS format.

Now you have no need to enter e-mail address every time you send an SMS. You may enter up to 10 email addresses to your email address book.

To record e-mail addresses into email address book:

• Type in a short message (email address) to be included into email address book;
• Send an SMS at 101050N, where N means the number selected for an email address to be entered into the email address book (digits from 0 to 9). The record of a new email address with identical sequence order will lead to erasure of a previously recorded email address.

To check the email address recorded previously:

• Send an SMS message with any text at 101060N, where N means a sequence order of the email address recorded in the email address book.

To transmit a message to an email address:

• Enter a short message, without specifying an email address;
• Send an SMS message at 1010Ñ0N, where:
  - Ñ means a transliteration code, and
  - N is a sequence order of the email address recorded in the email address book.

Example:

To enter an e-mail into an address book:

• Type in an email address in the text of your SMS message: Fr³end@hotma³l.com;
• Send an SMS message at 1010500.

Å-ma³l address will be added to the email address book under number ''0''.

To transmit messages to this recipient:

• Enter the message text: Vstrecha v 7-00. ²gor'
• Send SMS at 1010100.

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How to hide phone number by sending/receiving SMS or using nickname

All your SMS forwarded at e-mail address should be signed as  80YYÕÕÕÕÕÕÕ@sms.mts.com.ua where YY is the MTS, MTS Prepaid code; ÕÕÕ ÕÕÕÕ is the number of your mobile phone.

To hide your phone mobile number, incorporate your nickname to email address book  under the special number 00.

Now your nickname will be used by the system instead of your phone number for transmission of your email letters.

Moreover, you may use messages at:

• New email address nickname@sms.mts.com.ua, or at
• Previous address 310ÕÕÕÕ@sms.mts.com.ua.

Example: A subscribed phone holder 310 ÕÕÕÕ recorded into his email address book under 00 nickame n³ck. Now the system will forward messages by naming the author as n³ck@sms.mts.com.ua.

So, the record of your nickname under 00 allows:

• Hiding phone number during email transmission, and
• Share a new address with partners hiding a number of your mobile phone.

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Information on Billing Status for GSM Contract Subscribers

If you failed to pay your current bill or have a current debt using SMS you may get bill notifications:

• MTS ACCOUNT UAH XXXX UAH. – the amount of your current debt is UAH ÕÕÕÕ;
• PAY MTS ACCOUNT – you have not paid the bill for the previous month.

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