Whenever I try to send a text a red exclamation mark appears next to it.

As the title says texting is not working. I got my phone yesterday and thought it might be a slight delay in starting or something. All other services work fine such as 3G, imessage and phoning, just not texting. Please help.

SMS is a carrier feature, go talk to your carrier and make sure SMS is provisioned.

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