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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 UMC 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-maіl account;
from e-maіl to phone;
from Internet to phone.

Find out also about:

How to get SMS messages from Internet in Russian
Transliteration of SMS messages
SMS transliteration ban
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 UMC network, press: + 380 50 ХХХ ХХ ХХ, where:

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

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 ХХХХХХХ, where:

420 – international code of Czech Republic;
73 – code of T-Mobile operator;
ХХХХХХХ – 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 ХХХХХХХ, 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 ХХХХХХХ.

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:
Frіend@yahoo.com !vstrecha! vstretіmsіa segodnіa v 7-00. Olga.

SMS from e-maіl to phone

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

Enter the recipient's number in
National format 8 050 ХХХ ХХХХ, or
International +38 050 ХХХ ХХХХ (desirably).
Add the following address to the email address: @sms.umc.com.ua.
For example: e-maіl address of a recipient who holds a phone number starting from, 050 310-ХХХХ, will be as follows +38050310ХХХХ@sms.umc.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-maіl address of a subscriber in Austria subscribed to Mobikom operator and holding a mobile phone number 43 664 521-ХХХХ, may be presented in the following format +43664521ХХХХ@sms.mobikom.at.

SMS from Internet to phone

Send SMS to a UMC subscriber or subscribers of other GSM operators in Ukraine. UMC subscribers may enjoy this service at no charge!
Online users may also sent SMS messages from http://www.sim-sim.ua.

Receiving SMS messages from Internet in Russian

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.

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:
frіend@hotmaіl.com Vstrecha v 7-00 v #McDonalds#. Іgor'
And send the message at 10101.

A recipient will get a transliterated message in Russian:
Встреча в 7-00 в McDonalds. Игорь

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 1010С0N, where:
- С 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: Frіend@hotmaіl.com;
Send an SMS message at 1010500.

Е-maіl 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. Іgor'
Send SMS at 1010100.

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

All your SMS messages sent to e-mail address are signed as 80YYХХХХХХХ@sms.umc.com.ua, where YY is UMC, SIM-SIM, JEANS code, XXXXXXX is your mobile phone number.
In order to hide your mobile phone number, send an SMS message in Latin letters with your nickname to number 10105000. The cost of sending an SMS message to number 10105000 is standard.
If your nickname was not registered before by another subscriber, as a response you will receive a message about registration of your nickname. Now your pseudonym will be used by the system in place of your phone number for reception and sending e-mail.
Moreover, you can receive messages to:

the new address nickname@sms.umc.com.ua, and to

the old address 80YYXXХХХХ@sms.umc.com.ua.

Example: A subscriber with the phone number 8050310 ХХХХ has registered his nickname nіck. Now the system will send messages naming the author nіck@sms.umc.com.ua.

If your nickname was registered before by another subscriber, as a reply you will receive the SMS message that your nickname is already registered. In this case, you need to register another nickname by sending a message to number 10105000

Thus, the nickname service allows: