ok, a lot of my friends can go "mobile" when they're offline...I signed up for msn mobile today, to do the same thing, so that they can send me messages from msn messenger while I have my cell on, but the option "allow people on my contacts list to send messages to my mobile device" in the "tools", "options", "phone", is dimmed out and I can't check it, and when I log off of msn messenger, my status is offline and not mobile (and my cell is on).

why doesn't it work?

I'm using version 8.1, build 8.1.0178.00

also, when I go to "tools", "options", "phone", I don't have the fields to fill in country, and mobile/work/home numbers as many people have talked about in other threads I found....

I don't know if helps, but I remember that one friend of my, wnated this service too... She signed up on the MSN mobile and had to enablçe the service on the "phone operator" (the one you pay for your calls  and you recieve the bills of the celphone) -> I forgot the word of the , sorry....

And, when she wanted to cancel, she needed to signed out from MSN mobile and cancel the service on the "celphone operator"... I remember that till she have canceled on the operator, she appeared as a "cellphone" when offline....

I use rogers wireless, and I don't think the provider has anything to do w/ it, 'cause I went to the rogers web site, and followed their steps to getting msn mobile, and still it doesn't work......

I think msn (or microsoft...whichever one >_>>>) itself has bugs and glitches....as usual -_-

I mean, how is it that my friends appear as "mobile", and I can't?  I signed up the exact same way as they did.

plus, I even tried going back to messenger 7.5, 'cause I think my friend signed up for mobile w/ 7.5

but that didn't work either......the option "allow people on my contacts list to send...." was still dimmed out.

I deleted my msn mobile account and signed up again over and over, and stilll....nothing.

then I found out that when you sign up, there should be a box that says "my device can receive text messages", but I don't have that on my page.

maybe internet explorer is fooling around w/ smthg?  I dunno >_<

I didn't mean the Internet Provider, if was that.....
I mean the cellphone operator, the company that you have the cellphone and provides to you the service to use the cellphone.... I realy don't know the name...

Also you can try to ask Microsoft (on Suport), if no answer is given...

yeah, the cellphone operator is called provider =)