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Data & Messaging Features, Internet Tethering

Data & Messaging Features, Internet Tethering

Tips for how you can take your internet on the go, with Wi-Fi hot spots & more.

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Email-to-SMS not working

For the past 3-4 months I, along with other IT folks at my place of work, are not receiving our email-to-sms alerts sent from our mail server. I have scoured the internet looking for answers, emailed abuse_rbl@abuse-att.net as well as mobilityabuse@att.com, and performed my own testing.  I hav

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Text error 415

I use my phone for work running a service business. I get and receive photos every day,  from all brands and service providers.  The ONLY time I get the 415 error is sending pictures to my wife's phone on the same account. I have had some luck after resending 5-10 times, it might finally

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Cannot send/receive attachments over WiFi

I have a iPhone 13. Cell service at my home is bad. I have Wi-Fi Calling turned on. I can send text's but I can't send or receive attachments. Can I receive and send attachments? If so, what adjustments do I need to make?

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My (outbound) texts are being blocked on AT&Ts network

To recruit donors to an upcomming blood drive in my community, I sent about 150 texts from my personal cell phone to previous donors, who had provided their phone numbers at previous drives (in my community). The texts were all identical (a fact I later learned was a very bad idea). I don't know w

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International plan

Does the internet speed goes down if you use certain amount of data in one day while you are abroad using international day pass?

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Text logs

On of my lines, the text log on the app is not showing any outgoing texts and some incoming as well. My husband and I both have iPhones and use iMessage. Mine are showing in the text logs and his are not. So I don’t think it has anything to do with that. Is there another reason these aren’t showing

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Need to disconnect direct tv receivers from AT&T phone used as mobile hotspot

My direct tv shows up as connected to my phone hotspot tethering. It is using up data at a rapid rate (I think). I?m assuming something is running whenever the phone is turned on. I have tried turning off all background apps but the hot spot says that the data saver has to be off to use the tetherin

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Unauthorized Installation of AT&T-Cloud-Backup

If you’re not, the primary account holder for your wireless service and don’t have the accounts user id/password, are you able to uninstall the AT&T cloudbackup Service? Recently, I found out that my estranged husband is able to access my text messages because he is referencing them to me in con

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What is the capacity of email-to-sms gateway?

I am doing a project for a club that would like to implement email-to-sms messaging to send text messages at medium-volume to our members. I was wondering what are the capacity constraints for how many messages we can send (per minute, per hour) through an email-to-sms gateway?

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Hotspot

I'm on the 50 dollars plan with 30gb of data. How can I add mobile hotspot so my friend can use my Bluetooth

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Denied service

Been an AT&T customer for 6+ years, 4 wireless lines, perfect pay history (NEVER been late with them and excellent credit, I have zero past dues on any accounts for all 3 major reporting agencies). I ported over all my lines in the past few days to another carrier (lower prices) and the last lin

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Lost cellular service while abroad

I suddenly lost cellular service on my iphone. I am abroad.  I have tried the chat but it says I need to verify my account and will send a text, which I do not receive given that I don't have cellular service.  I have tried the 314 925 6925 number but it does not work (I have enabled wifi

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