BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless, which is partly owned by U.K.-based Vodafone Group plc, said it has expanded the reach of its international text messaging service to include more than 28 countries, allowing customers to send and receive inter-country text messages to and from customers of participating wireless companies in Canada and Mexico, as well as parts of South and Central America, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean and New Zealand.
Messages sent to Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico are charged at the same rate as those sent within the United States, which include either bundled messaging options or pay as you go for 10 cents for sent messages and 2 cents for received messages. International text messaging is 25 cents for each message sent and 2 cents for each message received.
Verizon Wireless noted it initially rolled out the InphoMatch-provided international text-messaging services in 2002, and its customers sent more than 2.1 billion text messages during the first quarter of this year.
