Support: Text Messaging
Text messaging rates depend on whether you are local or roaming, or whether you are sending to an international destination.
What you need to know
You can send and receive text messages in more than 130 countries worldwide. For a list of specific countries, see International text messaging.
Local rates
Text messaging is available as part of a plan. For more information, visit Plans.
You can also pay per use at 20¢ for each message sent or received within Canada.
For each text message you send from Canada to a recipient outside of Canada and the U.S. there is an additional charge of 15¢ per message if you have a Text Messaging plan, and if you do not have a Text Messaging plan, the pay per use rate is 35¢ per message.
Travel rates
Messages sent or received while outside of Canada is charged at 60¢ per message, regardless of whether or not you have a messaging package on your plan.
Premium text messages
Premium messages or short codes, are text messages that you can subscribe to and have delivered to your phone automatically, such as daily or weekly horoscope alerts. You can also enter and participate in popular TV shows, contests and promotions using short codes.
To track your Premium Message subscriptions, use our Premium Message Tracker tool. This tool lets you track all of your Premium Message subscriptions and cancel them if you want.
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