Airtel and MTN SMS center number for cyanogen modded android phones

As you already know, I modded my Samsung Galaxy S2 with CyanogenMod 

At the beginning of this month I noticed something very disturbing.
I got a happy new month message from a dear friend and I tried replying and no way. I tried and tried repeatedly, I kept getting message not sent. I googled the MTN SMSC code and as expected it was still +2348030000000, I tapped that into my modded android phone and got an error. I googled all the combination of mtn + android + sms + message + error + can't send and no suggestion found worked. I switched on and off the phone severally, no result.

So for more than 8 days I couldn't send an SMS.
Then suddenly on Wednesday, like a flash bulb, an idea lit up in my head. I removed my Airtel SIM from my Blackberry and put the SIM in the android phone, then I went to the settings to see the SMSC number. To my surprise it was 089132420000000f8 instead of +2348020000000 that is in the documentation. I tried sending an SMS and it was successful. 
So I did what anyone would do.

Airtel's real SMSC number is +2348020000000 but my android phone sees it as 089132420000000f8
Then MTN's that is +2348030000000 must be same as 089132430000000f8 on my android phone.
I removed the Airtel SIM and put back in my MTN SIM, updated the SMSC number as 089132430000000f8 and that was it! I was able to send SMSs again!

So, if you ever get into similar problem. Forget about what the SIM manual says and take the SMSC numbers to -
089132420000000f8 for Airtel, and
089132430000000f8 for MTN

And if you can't seem to find where to enter this setting, dial #*#*4636#*#* and you'll be taken to Android secret settings menu. In the Phone Information, scroll down and you'll see the SMSC field. Enter the SMSC number and tap on Update.

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