I am having the exact same problem do either of you know how to fix it? if so
please e-mail me at
i have been trying to fix this
for over a week and the IM worked fine last monday morning but that night it
would not send to one contact.
"Lyle" wrote:
> I am having the same problem with the following error message "This message
> was not sent because messages can't be sent to this contact's mobile service
> provider. View a list of providers that support mobile message". The
> recipient is on Verizon and I can send to other Verizon cell phones. In
> addition, I had been successfully sending to this number all of this year
> until about a month ago. I've tried WLM version 8.1 and 2008 and both have
> the same error. I can even send to my own phone which is on the same cell
> phone account as the one that fails and the numbers are the same except the
> last two digits. I have tried deleting the contact and changing the phone
> number of a contact that works to the failing number. Makes no difference.
> Still fails to that one phone number.
> "Mike Roder" wrote:
>
> > When I try to send a text message to the mobile phone of one of my contacts
> > through WLM, I get the following error.
> >
> > This message was not sent because messages can't be sent to this mobile
> > number.
> >
> > This started when we both upgraded to WLM 8.5. Prior to that, everything
> > was fine. All of my other contacts work fine. This contact is on the same
> > network as others that I can text. I get the same error with her family
> > members on her account but her wireless provider says nothing is blocked. I
> > can text her from my phone as can anyone else. It's clearly and WLM issue.
> > Can anyone help?
> >