im sorry if i answer your question. i don't know if you can send tex to other country and most of my friend own nextel try to send tex the philippines, no luck. my advise is keep your nextel for use here in the u.s. and get t-mo prepaid. your $10 load on t-mo prepaid last for 30 day and just use it for tex messaging anywhere in the world. that's what i do. i have family plan, i have t-mo prepaid just for txt messaging, my wife have prepaid cingular for txt only. both t-mo and cingular chrarge 10 cents for outgoing txt anywhere in the world and all incoming txt on both service provider is free.