Anytime you use your phone to check your messages, it will cost you minutes. If you can, try checking them from your home phone and it will be for free.
Text Messaging
Try entering the full phone number 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx
most phones these days need all these numbers to find and send text to them
I have a Virgin Mobile phone and if I enter the numbers like I said, I have no problem sending text messages.
I currently have Boost Mobile with the i285 model, I purchased my 1st phone a couple weeks ago and had an activitiob problem, so I returned the phone to Walmart and the next day went to the local Nextel Store and purchased the same phone model and got it activition, it fixed a couple of problems including voicemail, phone number, and etc, except test messaging (boost messaging), I called them and after 2 calls, they transfered me to Nextel, then to Nextel servers and they fixed it with a simple test to me. I then tryed it and it worked fully.
Problem: A couple days later and I have a Net Alert from Boost Text and I tryed to open and the phone errored with "You are corrently not provisioned for boost messaging".
DOES ANYONE HAVE TEST MESSAGING (BOOST MESSAGING) THAT WORKS ALL THE TIME AND WHEN IT WORKS, DOES YOUR NET ALERT SAY 1 MESSAGE, TITLED "BOOST TEXT MESS............"
ALSO DOES IT COST $0.25/MIN TO CALL 611
PLEASE HELP
Other than that, my phone works fine, 1 note: it costs $0.25/min. to get voicemail.

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