The official SMS service is available  worldwide subject to payment of a subscription and the local network provider allowing such text messages on the network.

 

Pay as you go is available to mobile phones registered on the following UK networks only:

 

T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone, O2, 3 and Virgin.

 

If you decide to setup a SMS Alert service you can test this by sending a text to WIN TEST on 62277 and this will ensure that you have been setup correctly.

 

Sending a test message to 62277 twill ensure that your mobile phone is correctly registered as mobile numbers can be transferred from network to network by users.