User's Guide

Using Message Services 109
What Messages Contain
You can receive short text or numeric messages in
your Personal Mailbox. Text messages may contain
up to 160 characters. Numeric messages—typically
phone numbers—may contain up to 20 digits.
Your personal mailbox works along with Call
Forwarding. For more information see “Personal
Mailbox” on page 48, and the Call Forwarding
feature descriptions on pages 89-94.
Messages contain multiple screens with the
following information:
• the message
• the date and time the message was sent
• the phone number (if available) from which
the message was sent