The combined business will create a mobile carrier with 2.8 million customers and more than 20 percent market share in Austria.

The company was one of the first mobile carriers in Russia.

And all major mobile carriers offer text-messaging service, but generally it is not free.

If your phone is off the mobile carrier typically stores the text message for you.

Additional charges may apply from your mobile carrier to access internet data content.

Moldcell is the second largest mobile carrier in the country.

Unité is the third largest mobile carrier in the country.

To date they have processed transactions in six countries for 110,000 clients across more than 20 mobile carriers.

They will be charged access rates depending on their mobile carrier.

The new network will, for now, be far faster than services offered by other mobile carriers, analysts said.