To receive messages, a Nextel SIM must have a messaging plan.
Nextel messages can be sent using several methods. Nextel messages can be sent directly from a cell phone, via email or via Nextel's two-way messaging website. This range of communication methods ensures that non-Nextel users, and even consumers without a cell phone, can get in touch with Nextel cell phone users via short text and email messages. In order to send and receive messages on a Nextel mobile device, the phone must have a SIM card that includes messaging services and, if sending from a computer, you must have an Internet connection.
Instructions
Via the Nextel Website
1. Load the Nextel messaging website at messaging.nextel.com.
2. Enter full 10-digit phone number of the recipient and click "Go."
3. Compose your message. On the next screen, type the full message that you want sent to a Nextel user. In the "From" field type your name, and in the "Subject" line type a subject for your message if needed.
4. Provide reply information. In the "Send Reply To" field, provide the Nextel phone number and/or email address to which you want to recipient to reply.
5. Send the message. Click the "Send Message" button to forward the message to the Nextel user.
Via Email
6. Open your web-based email account, or open the email client on your computer.
7. Start a new message. Click the "New" button to begin composing a new email message.
8. Properly address the message. Address the email in the following format:
number@messaging.nextel.com
Replace "number" with the full 10-digit Nextel phone number--for example, 3135551212@messaging.nextel.com.
9. Compose the message. Nextel messages are sent as media messages, not text messages, so there is no limit to the number of characters included in an emailed message.
10. Send the message. Click the "Send" button in your email client to forward the message to a Nextel cell phone user.
Via Your Phone
11. Open the "Messaging" menu by pressing the appropriate soft key on your Nextel or other branded device.
12. Enter the destination phone number in its full 10-digit format.
13. Compose the message. One some devices and with certain cell phone carriers, an outgoing text message may be limited to 160 characters, and it may need to be sent in multiple parts.
14. Press the "Send" or "Enter" button to send the message to the intended Nextel recipient.
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