Does ICQ Only SMS To Those 5 Countries ?

[Jay F Shachter]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Tres Finocchiaro would write on Tue Dec  3 20:20:22 2013:

> 
> The ICQ has this in the cached google results:
> 
>> Use ICQ to send free SMS messages. Australia, Canada, Israel, Singapore and
>> Taiwan coverage
> 
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=icq+sms#
> 
> -Tres
> 
> 
> - Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com
> 

That might explain my problem.  Does ICQ send SMS messages only to
Australia, Canada, Israel, Singapore and Taiwan?  I have been trying
to use my ICQ account to send text messages to cellphones in the
United States and France.  In particular, I was looking for a way to
send text messages to France, since I can already use voice.google.com
to send text messages to cellphones in the United States (although,
parenthetically, I don't know how to do so from pidgin or empathy, but
nor did I investigate the question).  Does ICQ simply not support
texting in France, or the United States?  That would explain my
inability to do so (although, again parenthetically, pidgin and
empathy should have known enough to describe my French contact as
"offline" since a cellphone number beginning with +33 is clearly not
in Australia, Canada, Israel, Singapore, or Taiwan, although it was
less obvious that the cellphone numbers beginning with +1 were not in
Canada).

If not thru ICQ, is there any other way to send text messages to
cellphones in France?  Thank you in advance for any and all replies.


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