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Old 08-27-2008, 1:11 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Right, so I live in england but am wanting to text someone from austria (so with an austrian mobile number), however, at the moment this person is on holiday in spain.. How do I send texts to them? Will I need the area code of austria? or spain? or?

Thanks in advance, Im struggling to get these texts to them! cheers
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Right, so I live in england but am wanting to text someone from austria (so with an austrian mobile number), however, at the moment this person is on holiday in spain.. How do I send texts to them? Will I need the area code of austria? or spain? or?

Thanks in advance, Im struggling to get these texts to them! cheers
Hi there, you should be able to text by using + then country code of Austria and then the complete Austrian Mobile Number irrespective of where that person is.

Let us know if you succeded.
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Thanks alot for your reply, however next problem is that I don't know the code for austria lol sorry im useless with this stuff haha

anyone know the country code for austria?

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Thanks alot for your reply, however next problem is that I don't know the code for austria lol sorry im useless with this stuff haha

anyone know the country code for austria?

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The country code for Austria is 43.

Here is a cheat sheet for future reference.
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Right thanks! You were a huge help! I'll let you know if it succeeds

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Right, so I live in england but am wanting to text someone from austria (so with an austrian mobile number), however, at the moment this person is on holiday in spain.. How do I send texts to them? Will I need the area code of austria? or spain? or?

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Just key +43 plus the area code (omitting the leading zero) plus the number.
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anyone know the country code for austria?

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Just doing a google search would have found it for you. It's +43.
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