Do you wish to learn how to activate SMS roaming on Cell C? Cell C offers some of the best roaming rates that can be found out there. This allows you to stay in touch with friends, family and colleagues while travelling abroad. Before you go, however, you need to make sure that roaming is activated. We have a previous article in which we spoke about how to activate international roaming on Cell C. In this post, we are focusing on the activation of the SMS component. How is that done?
SMS Roaming Cell C
To activate SMS only roaming on Cell C, you need to take the following steps;
- Dial *106*2# on your Cell C phone.
- Follow the prompts to activate SMS roaming.
- If you have issues, call +2784135. You can also call135 from Cell C SIM to get assistance in activating the service.
SMS, data and voice Roaming is automatic
That’s how to activate SMS only roaming on Cell C. Here, we are assuming that you wish to disable voice and data while travelling abroad. The only thing that you wish to keep active is SMS.
Note that roaming roaming in general is automatically activated on Cell C for all Prepaid and Top-Up customers. That’s good news because you don’t have to take any steps to turn it on before going abroad.
When you arrive wherever you are going, you will automatically have voice, data and SMS roaming, provided there are Cell C roaming partners in that country.
Deactivating and activating?
You can deactivate voice and SMS by dialing *106*3#. You can reactivate voice and SMS by dialing *106*2#. For data, you need to call +2784135 for help. When in South Africa, simply dial 135 from your Cell C phone.
Roaming can be expensive
In this post we showed you how to activate SMS roaming on Cell C in South Africa. The thing to note is that roaming can be expensive. It’s the reason why many people go out looking for SMS only roaming activation steps.
You don’t get charged that much for SMSs while abroad. But when it comes to calls, you are usually charged for both incoming and outgoing calls. That tends to make the whole thing rather costly.
The good news is that you can activate SMS only roaming on Cell C. That’s similar to other networks like MTN. The moment you switch on SMS only roaming, data and voice get deactivate.
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